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title: Ben's cousin moans "gotta walk 40 minutes now." Before it was 5 minu… — Taking without paying: the consequences · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben's cousin moans "gotta walk 40 minutes now." Before it was 5 minutes. How many extra minutes is a trip there and back? Test 4 of lesson 15 «Taking without paying: the consequences» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 4 · Taking without paying: the consequences

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Ben's cousin moans "gotta walk 40 minutes now." Before it was 5 minutes. How many extra minutes is a trip there and back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cousin, many extra minutes · **What happens:** moan, walk, be · **To what, where:** trip · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 of lesson 15 «Taking without paying: the consequences» of the money 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/money/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ben's cousin moans "gotta walk 40 minutes now."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences:t4:1
# text = Ben's cousin moans "gotta walk 40 minutes now."
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	moans	moan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	gotta	gotta	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
7	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **moan** | present | Ben's cousin |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ben's cousin *not said here* |  |  |  | now; minute |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:* Before it was 5 minutes.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences:t4:2
# text = Before it was 5 minutes.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 | **is** | past | cousin |  |  |  | before 5 minutes |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* How many extra minutes is a trip there and back?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences:t4:3
# text = How many extra minutes is a trip there and back?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | many extra minutes | a trip |  | there |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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70

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences:t4:o1:1
# text = 70
1	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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45

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences:t4:o2:1
# text = 45
1	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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80

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences:t4:o3:1
# text = 80
1	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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35

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences:t4:o4:1
# text = 35
1	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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