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title: «borrow ur gift card? I'll pay u back, promise». Ruby? — Gift cards and birthday money: making… · tree and pragmatics
description: «borrow ur gift card? I'll pay u back, promise». Ruby? Test 4 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 wrong.
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# Test 4 · Gift cards and birthday money: making it last

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«borrow ur gift card? I'll pay u back, promise». Ruby?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** borrow, pay back · **To what, where:** gift card, u

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This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «borrow ur gift card?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t4:1
# text = «borrow ur gift card?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ur	your	PRON	PRP$	Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **borrow** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | ur's gift card |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=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:* I'll pay u back, promise».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t4:2
# text = I'll pay u back, promise».
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay back** | future | I | u |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset |

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*Sentence 3:* Ruby?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t4:3
# text = Ruby?
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Lend it only if he begs twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t4:o1:1
# text = Lend it only if he begs twice
1	Lend	lend	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	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	begs	beg	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | he |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Give the code and forget it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t4:o2:1
# text = Give the code and forget it
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	forget	forget	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | the code |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent code=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | infinitive | you *not said here* | code |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She must lend it, or she'll lose the friend for good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t4:o3:1
# text = She must lend it, or she'll lose the friend for good
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | must | She | it |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | future | she | the friend |  |  |  | for good | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Eventuality |

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

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A kind no is fine if the rules aren't clear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t4:o4:1
# text = A kind no is fine if the rules aren't clear
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	no	no	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a kind no |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the rules |  |  |  |  | clear *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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