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title: A boy in Sydney spends all his trip money in the first gift shop and… — The lunchroom and school trips · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Sydney spends all his trip money in the first gift shop and has nothing left for the ice cream. What could have helped? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 258 «The lunchroom and school trips» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 5 · ★ · The lunchroom and school trips

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A boy in Sydney spends all his trip money in the first gift shop and has nothing left for the ice cream. What could have helped?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** spend, have, leave, help · **To what, where:** trip money, first gift shop, nothing

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 258 «The lunchroom and school trips» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Sydney spends all his trip money in the first gift shop and has nothing left for the ice cream.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t5:1
# text = A boy in Sydney spends all his trip money in the first gift shop and has nothing left for the ice cream.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	spends	spend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
13	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | present | a boy in Sydney | boy's trip money |  | the first gift shop |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 2 | **have** | present | a boy in Sydney *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for the ice cream | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for cream=Recipient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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*Sentence 2:* What could have helped?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t5:2
# text = What could have helped?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | could · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Borrowing from the teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t5:o1:1
# text = Borrowing from the teacher
1	Borrowing	borrow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **borrow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | from the teacher | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from teacher=Source |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Deciding before the trip how much to spend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t5:o2:1
# text = Deciding before the trip how much to spend
1	Deciding	decide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | gerund |  | much |  |  | before the trip |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent much=Topic |
| 2 | **spend** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Buying everything in the last shop instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t5:o3:1
# text = Buying everything in the last shop instead
1	Buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | gerund |  | everything |  | the last shop |  | instead *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bringing no money at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t5:o4:1
# text = Bringing no money at all
1	Bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | gerund |  | no money |  | all |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent money=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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