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title: A girl in Adelaide does not have money to buy books but loves readin… — The library and books · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Adelaide does not have money to buy books but loves reading. What could help her most? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 259 «The library and books» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · The library and books

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A girl in Adelaide does not have money to buy books but loves reading. What could help her most?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl, money · **What happens:** not have, buy, love, help · **To what, where:** money, books, reading, girl

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 259 «The library and books» 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/259-library-and-books/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl in Adelaide does not have money to buy books but loves reading.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:259-library-and-books:t7:1
# text = A girl in Adelaide does not have money to buy books but loves reading.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Adelaide	Adelaide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | a girl in Adelaide | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive | money *not said here* | books |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 3 | **love** | present | a girl in Adelaide *not said here* | reading |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reading=Stimulus |

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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 help her most?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:259-library-and-books:t7:2
# text = What could help her most?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Waiting until she is grown up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:259-library-and-books:t7:o1:1
# text = Waiting until she is grown up
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	nsubj	_	_
2	until	until	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  | until she |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow up** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Getting her own public library card

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:259-library-and-books:t7:o2:1
# text = Getting her own public library card
1	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | gerund |  | her own public library card |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer card=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Reading only one new book a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:259-library-and-books:t7:o3:1
# text = Reading only one new book a year
1	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  | one new book |  |  | year |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only reading the books she owns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:259-library-and-books:t7:o4:1
# text = Only reading the books she owns
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  | the books |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
| 2 | **own** | present | she | the books *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot book=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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