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title: Ollie's mum finds the gift card paper in the recycling. Lesson? — Gift cards and birthday money: making… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ollie's mum finds the gift card paper in the recycling. Lesson? Test 3 of lesson 415 «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» 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 right.
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# Test 3 · Gift cards and birthday money: making it last

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Ollie's mum finds the gift card paper in the recycling. Lesson?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mum · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** card paper, recycling

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This is test 3 of lesson 415 «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» 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/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ollie's mum finds the gift card paper in the recycling.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t3:1
# text = Ollie's mum finds the gift card paper in the recycling.
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	recycling	recycling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | Ollie's mum | the card paper |  | the recycling |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Topic |

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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:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t3:2
# 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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Paper codes are worthless

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t3:o1:1
# text = Paper codes are worthless
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	codes	code	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	worthless	worthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Paper codes |  |  |  |  | worthless *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A code on paper is money on paper, so keep it safe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t3:o2:1
# text = A code on paper is money on paper, so keep it safe
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a code on paper | money |  | paper |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | a code on paper *not said here* | code |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Recycling bins are safe places for codes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t3:o3:1
# text = Recycling bins are safe places for codes
1	Recycling	recycle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	codes	code	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recycle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Recycling bins | safe places |  |  |  | for codes | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The shop always prints a new code

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t3:o4:1
# text = The shop always prints a new code
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	prints	print	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** | present | the shop | a new code |  |  |  | always *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent code=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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