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title: What would happen if Kai kept lending to the friend who never pays b… — Lending, sharing, charity and tipping · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Kai kept lending to the friend who never pays back? Test 6 of lesson 39 «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» of the money 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 6 · Lending, sharing, charity and tipping

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What would happen if Kai kept lending to the friend who never pays back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Kai, friend · **What happens:** happen, keep, lend, not pay back · **To what, where:** friend

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This is test 6 of lesson 39 «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» 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/39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:t6:1
# text = What would happen if Kai kept lending to the friend who never pays back?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	lending	lend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Kai |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lend** | gerund | Kai *not said here* |  | the friend |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **pay back** | present | the friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nothing, lending never costs anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:t6:o1:1
# text = Nothing, lending never costs anything
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lending	lend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | gerund | Nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **cost** | present | Nothing | anything |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme anything=Value |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The friend would pay back double one day for sure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:t6:o2:1
# text = The friend would pay back double one day for sure
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay back** | would | the friend |  |  |  | day | for sure | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sure=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Kai would get richer because lending makes money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:t6:o3:1
# text = Kai would get richer because lending makes money
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	lending	lending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Kai |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | present | lending | money |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product |

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

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He'd keep losing money; it's okay to say no and still be friends

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:t6:o4:1
# text = He'd keep losing money; it's okay to say no and still be friends
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
12	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	11	discourse	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | would | He |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund | He *not said here* | money |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | infinitive | He *not said here* | friends |  |  | still |  | 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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