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title: A boy keeps his pocket money in a jar but never counts it. What prob… — Coins, pocket money, saving, spending… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy keeps his pocket money in a jar but never counts it. What problem might he have? Test 2 · ★ 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
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# Test 2 · ★ · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning…

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A boy keeps his pocket money in a jar but never counts it. What problem might he have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy, problem · **What happens:** keep, not count, have · **To what, where:** pocket money, jar, money

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy keeps his pocket money in a jar but never counts it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t2:1
# text = A boy keeps his pocket money in a jar but never counts it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | a boy | boy's pocket money |  | a jar |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme in jar=Location |
| 2 | **not** **count** | present | a boy *not said here* | money |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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 problem might he have?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t2:2
# text = What problem might he have?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | might | problem |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He will not know what he can afford

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t2:o1:1
# text = He will not know what he can afford
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | future | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **afford** | can | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The jar will fill up too quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t2:o2:1
# text = The jar will fill up too quickly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill up** | future | the jar |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He will always have enough for anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t2:o3:1
# text = He will always have enough for anything
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | He | enough |  |  |  | for anything; always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His money will slowly be worth less

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t2:o4:1
# text = His money will slowly be worth less
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | His money |  |  |  |  | slowly, worth *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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