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title: «£5, saw a toy, bought it, it's rubbish, now I can't get the comic».… — Spoiling and losing things · tree and pragmatics
description: «£5, saw a toy, bought it, it's rubbish, now I can't get the comic». Lesson? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 361 «Spoiling and losing things» 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 9 · ★ · Spoiling and losing things

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«£5, saw a toy, bought it, it's rubbish, now I can't get the comic». Lesson?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** toy, I · **What happens:** see, buy, be, not get · **To what, where:** toy, rubbish, comic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 361 «Spoiling and losing things» 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/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «£5, saw a toy, bought it, it's rubbish, now I can't get the comic».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike:t9:1
# text = «£5, saw a toy, bought it, it's rubbish, now I can't get the comic».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	comic	comic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | past |  | a toy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | past |  | toy |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | toy | rubbish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | can | I | the comic |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comic=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:* Lesson?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike:t9:2
# text = Lesson?
1	Lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Comics are always a waste

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike:t9:o1:1
# text = Comics are always a waste
1	Comics	comic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Comics | a waste |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Money is only for toys and sweets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike:t9:o2:1
# text = Money is only for toys and sweets
1	Money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Money |  |  |  |  | for toys and sweets | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Think before you spend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike:t9:o3:1
# text = Think before you spend
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Always buy the first thing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike:t9:o4:1
# text = Always buy the first thing
1	Always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | imperative | you *not said here* | the first thing |  |  |  | always *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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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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