--- title: got $10, gonna blow it all on sweets today — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics description: got $10, gonna blow it all on sweets today Test 14 · ★★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/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/) / [Pocket money, saving and spending](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★★ · Pocket money, saving and spending got $10, gonna blow it all on sweets today **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** blow · **To what, where:** it, sweets This is test 14 · ★★ 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/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t14:1 # text = got $10, gonna blow it all on sweets today 1 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 $ $ SYM $ _ 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 gonna gonna X FW Foreign=Yes 6 dep _ _ 6 blow blow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blow** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | sweets | today | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=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} Buy lottery tickets to win more ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t14:o1:1 # text = Buy lottery tickets to win more 1 Buy buy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 lottery lottery NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 tickets ticket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | imperative | you *not said here* | lottery tickets | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme | | 2 | **win** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Spend it all, money's for spending ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t14:o2:1 # text = Spend it all, money's for spending 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 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 spending spending NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | 's money; for spending | vn pay-68 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Asset for spending=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Spend it, pocket money can't be saved anyway ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t14:o3:1 # text = Spend it, pocket money can't be saved anyway 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 _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 4 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 saved save VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 10 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ ``` | # | 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 | **not** **save** | can · passive | | pocket money | | | | anyway *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Save some for things you'll need later ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t14:o4:1 # text = Save some for things you'll need later 1 Save save VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* | some | | | | for things | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent some=Theme for thing=Source | | 2 | **need** | future | you | things *not said here* | | | | late *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | **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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