--- title: cheap $2 ball broke again, 3rd one this month lol — Coins, pocket money, saving, spending… · tree and pragmatics description: cheap $2 ball broke again, 3rd one this month lol Test 14 · ★ of lesson 308 «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/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/) / [Coins, pocket money, saving, spending…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning… cheap $2 ball broke again, 3rd one this month lol **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cheap $ ball · **What happens:** break · **To what, where:** 3rd one This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 308 «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t14:1 # text = cheap $2 ball broke again, 3rd one this month lol 1 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 $ $ SYM $ _ 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 4 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 again again ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 3rd 3rd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 lol lol INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | past | cheap $ ball | 3rd one | | | again; month | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Balls always break, it's normal ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t14:o1:1 # text = Balls always break, it's normal 1 Balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 3 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | present | Balls | | | | | always *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | it | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Buy five at once next time ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t14:o2:1 # text = Buy five at once next time 1 Buy buy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 obj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 1 obl _ _ 5 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | imperative | you *not said here* | five | | | time | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent five=Theme at once=Asset | ### Option 3 {#o3} Keep buying the cheap ones, they're cheaper every single time ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t14:o3:1 # text = Keep buying the cheap ones, they're cheaper every single time 1 Keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 buying buy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 cheaper cheap ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 parataxis _ _ 10 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 11 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **buy** | gerund | you *not said here* | the cheap ones | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | they | | | | time | cheap *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Something that lasts can cost less in the end ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t14:o4:1 # text = Something that lasts can cost less in the end 1 Something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **last** | present | | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cost** | can | Something | less | | | in the end | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme less=Value | **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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