--- title: lil bro has coins in his mouth — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics description: lil bro has coins in his mouth Test 14 · ★★ of lesson 260 «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/t14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Learning a skill, and coins and notes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes lil bro has coins in his mouth **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lil bro · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** coins, mouth This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 260 «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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/260-learning-skills-and-coins/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t14:1 # text = lil bro has coins in his mouth 1 lil little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | lil bro | coins | | bro's mouth | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Patient | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Wait until he spits them out ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t14:o1:1 # text = Wait until he spits them out 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 until until SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spits spit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spit out** | present | he | them *= they* | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Take them out gently and tell an adult ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t14:o2:1 # text = Take them out gently and tell an adult 1 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 4 gently gently ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take out** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | gently *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Let him, coins are clean ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t14:o3:1 # text = Let him, coins are clean 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | coins | | | | | clean *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Give him more to play with ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t14:o4:1 # text = Give him more to play with 1 Give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | more | him *= he* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient more=Theme | | 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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. 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