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Test 10 · Moving house and renting a home

The sale falls through after three months. Dad sighs: "Back to square one." What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sale, Dad · What happens: fall through, sigh, square, be · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 10 «Moving house and renting a home» of the adult life 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.

The question

Sentence 1: The sale falls through after three months.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sale	det
2	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	nsubj
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADV	_	3 falls	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 months	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 months	nummod
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 falls	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 falls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall through	present	the sale				month	through property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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: Dad sighs: "Back to square one."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sighs	nsubj
2	sighs	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 sighs	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 square	punct
5	Back	back	ADV	_	7 square	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 square	case
7	square	square	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sighs	parataxis
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 square	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 square	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 square	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sigh	present	Dad						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	square in a quote	infinitive		one					vn harmonize-22.6 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme

Sentence 3: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

The family has lost the house for good and must leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 good	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lost	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 leave	cc
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 leave	aux
11	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect	the family	the house				for good	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Eventuality
2	leave	must	the family not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It means the house is worth nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 nothing	cop
6	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nothing	amod
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the house	nothing					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sales can fall through, and they just keep trying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	through	through	ADV	_	3 fall	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 keep	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keep	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 keep	advmod
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	conj
10	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall through	can	Sales					through property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	Sales = sale						tree rules
3	try	gerund	Sales = sale not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

They can never sell the house now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sell	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 sell	advmod
4	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sell	obj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sell	can	They	the house			now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

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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