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title: Theo, holding grandma's £20: «it's MINE, all of it on games». Wise p… — Gift cards and birthday money: making… · tree and pragmatics
description: Theo, holding grandma's £20: «it's MINE, all of it on games». Wise plan? Test 5 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 5 · Gift cards and birthday money: making it last

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Theo, holding grandma's £20: «it's MINE, all of it on games». Wise plan?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Theo, it · **What happens:** hold, be · **To what, where:** grandma, MINE

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Theo, holding grandma's £20: «it's MINE, all of it on games».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t5:1
# text = Theo, holding grandma's £20: «it's MINE, all of it on games».
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	MINE	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund | Theo *not said here* | grandma |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Theme £=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | it | MINE |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* Wise plan?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t5:2
# text = Wise plan?
1	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	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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Hide it so mum can't ask about it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t5:o1:1
# text = Hide it so mum can't ask about it
1	Hide	hide	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	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | can | mum |  |  |  |  | about it | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Spend it all in one go, tonight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t5:o2:1
# text = Spend it all in one go, tonight
1	Spend	spend	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	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	go	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | one go and tonight |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Give it all to a friend to look after

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t5:o3:1
# text = Give it all to a friend to look after
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | a friend |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to friend=Recipient |
| 2 | **look after** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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Save some and spend some

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:t5:o4:1
# text = Save some and spend some
1	Save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	spend	spend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** | infinitive | you *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Asset |

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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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