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title: everyone at school has these trainers, gonna spend all my savings on… — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: everyone at school has these trainers, gonna spend all my savings on em Test 13 · ★★ of lesson 261 «Pocket money, saving and spending» 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 13 · ★★ · Pocket money, saving and spending

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everyone at school has these trainers, gonna spend all my savings on em

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** everyone, my · **What happens:** have, spend, save · **To what, where:** trainers, savings, em

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This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 261 «Pocket money, saving and spending» 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/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t13:1
# text = everyone at school has these trainers, gonna spend all my savings on em
1	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	dep	_	_
9	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	em	em	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | everyone | this trainers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trainer=Patient |
| 2 | **spend** | infinitive |  | my savings |  |  |  | on em *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent savings=Asset on em=Goal |
| 3 | **save** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom savings «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, fitting in is worth every penny you have

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t13:o1:1
# text = Yes, fitting in is worth every penny you have
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	fitting	fit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit in** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | fitting |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | you | every penny *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Buy two pairs to fit in more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t13:o2:1
# text = Buy two pairs to fit in more
1	Buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | imperative | you *not said here* | two pairs |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme |
| 2 | **fit** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | more |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in more=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Things bought just to fit in often bring little joy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t13:o3:1
# text = Things bought just to fit in often bring little joy
1	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | participle |  | Things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fit in** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | present | Things | little joy |  |  |  | often *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent joy=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Spend it all, saving is pointless

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t13:o4:1
# text = Spend it all, saving is pointless
1	Spend	spend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	pointless	pointless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
| 2 | **save** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | saving |  |  |  |  | pointless *property* | tree rules |

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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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