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title: A girl wants a $30 toy and gets $5 a week. What is the best plan? — Being kind to yourself, money, screens… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl wants a $30 toy and gets $5 a week. What is the best plan? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 293 «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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 2 · ★ · Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play

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A girl wants a $30 toy and gets $5 a week. What is the best plan?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl, best plan · **What happens:** want, get, be · **To what, where:** $ toy

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 293 «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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/293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl wants a $30 toy and gets $5 a week.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t2:1
# text = A girl wants a $30 toy and gets $5 a week.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	$	$	SYM	$	_	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
7	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	$	$	SYM	$	_	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | a girl | a $ toy |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot toy=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  | week |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer $=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 is the best plan?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t2:2
# text = What is the best plan?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the best plan |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ask for the toy every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t2:o1:1
# text = Ask for the toy every day
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | day | for the toy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Borrow $30 from a classmate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t2:o2:1
# text = Borrow $30 from a classmate
1	Borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	$	$	SYM	$	_	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	classmate	classmate	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** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a classmate |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent $=Theme from classmate=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Spend it all each week and just hope the toy turns up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t2:o3:1
# text = Spend it all each week and just hope the toy turns up
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	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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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 |  |  | week |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
| 2 | **hope** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **turn up** | present | the toy |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Save part of it each week until she has enough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t2:o4:1
# text = Save part of it each week until she has enough
1	Save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
10	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* | part of part |  |  | week |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | she | enough |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient |

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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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