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title: Ella's neighbour says "win-win, innit" about the scooter swap. What… — Swaps and barter in the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: Ella's neighbour says "win-win, innit" about the scooter swap. What does that mean? Test 9 · ★ 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 each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Swaps and barter in the playground

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Ella's neighbour says "win-win, innit" about the scooter swap. What does that mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** neighbour, that · **What happens:** say, mean · **To what, where:** win win · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ella's neighbour says "win-win, innit" about the scooter swap.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t9:1
# text = Ella's neighbour says "win-win, innit" about the scooter swap.
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	win	win	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	win	win	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	scooter	scooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ella's neighbour | win win about the scooter swap and innit |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does that mean?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t9:2
# text = What does that mean?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

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

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Both of them ended up better off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t9:o1:1
# text = Both of them ended up better off
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end up** | past | Both |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Nobody got anything at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t9:o2:1
# text = Nobody got anything at all
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Nobody | anything |  | all |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent anything=Theme at all=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Both of them lost the swap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t9:o3:1
# text = Both of them lost the swap
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | Both | the swap |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swap=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only the neighbour won the deal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t9:o4:1
# text = Only the neighbour won the deal
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | the neighbour | the deal |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Eventuality |

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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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