--- title: Sam groans "how long's that gonna take?" — game's £24, he gets £3 a… — Saving up for a game · tree and pragmatics description: Sam groans "how long's that gonna take?" — game's £24, he gets £3 a week, and Gran's just given him £6. Now how many weeks? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Saving up for a game» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/) / [Saving up for a game](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★★ · Saving up for a game Sam groans "how long's that gonna take?" — game's £24, he gets £3 a week, and Gran's just given him £6. Now how many weeks? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sam, that · **What happens:** groan, be, get, give · **To what, where:** Sam · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Saving up for a game» 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/8-saving-up-for-a-game/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Sam groans "how long's that gonna take?" — game's £24, he gets £3 a week, and Gran's just given him £6. ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:t1:1 # text = Sam groans "how long's that gonna take?" — game's £24, he gets £3 a week, and Gran's just given him £6. 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 groans groan VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 5 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 nsubj _ _ 8 gonna gonna X FW Foreign=Yes 9 dep _ _ 9 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 — - PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 £ £ SYM $ _ 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 £ £ SYM $ _ 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 £ £ SYM $ _ 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **groan** | present | Sam | | | | | 's game | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | long, take *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | present | Sam | | | | week | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer £=Stimulus | | 4 | **give** | participle | Sam *not said here* | | Sam | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient £=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* Now how many weeks? ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:t1:2 # text = Now how many weeks? 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 7 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:t1:o1:1 # text = 7 1 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 10 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:t1:o2:1 # text = 10 1 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 8 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:t1:o3:1 # text = 8 1 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:t1:o4:1 # text = 6 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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