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title: A Scouse lad goes, "I'll do your Friday dinner duty if you do me Tue… — Swaps and barter in the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: A Scouse lad goes, "I'll do your Friday dinner duty if you do me Tuesday, sound?" ("Sound" means okay.) What kind of swap is that? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 4 «Swaps and barter in the playground» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 11 · ★ · Swaps and barter in the playground

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A Scouse lad goes, "I'll do your Friday dinner duty if you do me Tuesday, sound?" ("Sound" means okay.) What kind of swap is that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Scouse lad, I, you, Sound, that · **What happens:** go, do, mean, be · **To what, where:** Friday dinner duty, me, kind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 4 «Swaps and barter in the playground» 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/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A Scouse lad goes, "I'll do your Friday dinner duty if you do me Tuesday, sound?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t11:1
# text = A Scouse lad goes, "I'll do your Friday dinner duty if you do me Tuesday, sound?"
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Scouse	scouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | a Scouse lad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | future | I | your Friday dinner duty |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  | me |  | tuesday |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |

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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:* ("Sound" means okay.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t11:2
# text = ("Sound" means okay.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Sound |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What kind of swap is that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t11:3
# text = What kind of swap is that?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | what kind |  |  |  | of swap | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A swap of time and help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t11:o1:1
# text = A swap of time and help
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swap** |  |  | time |  |  |  |  | nom swap «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A swap of money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t11:o2:1
# text = A swap of money
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swap** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom swap «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A threat dressed as a deal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t11:o3:1
# text = A threat dressed as a deal
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	threat	threat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | participle |  | a threat *not said here* |  |  |  | as a deal | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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A gift with nothing back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t11:o4:1
# text = A gift with nothing back
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nmod	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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

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