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title: What would happen if a family spent all its money on wants first? — Wants and needs · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a family spent all its money on wants first? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 7 «Wants and needs» 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 5 · ★ · Wants and needs

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What would happen if a family spent all its money on wants first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** family · **What happens:** happen, spend · **To what, where:** money, wants

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 7 «Wants and needs» 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/7-wants-and-needs/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:7-wants-and-needs:t5:1
# text = What would happen if a family spent all its money on wants first?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wants	want	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	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 | **spend** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a family | family's money |  |  |  | on wants *goal*; first *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on want=Goal |

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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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Needs would become free

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:7-wants-and-needs:t5:o1:1
# text = Needs would become free
1	Needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, needs and wants cost the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:7-wants-and-needs:t5:o2:1
# text = Nothing, needs and wants cost the same
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | present | Nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cost *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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It would get extra money from the shops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:7-wants-and-needs:t5:o3:1
# text = It would get extra money from the shops
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | It | extra money |  | the shops |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from shop=Source |

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

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It might not have enough left for food, rent or warm clothes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:7-wants-and-needs:t5:o4:1
# text = It might not have enough left for food, rent or warm clothes
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **leave** | might · perfect · passive |  | It |  |  |  | for food and rent or warm clothes; enough *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for food=Recipient |

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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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