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Test 2 · Moving house and renting a home

Overheard on the phone: "Survey found damp and a dodgy roof, they've dropped the offer by ten grand." Why did the offer drop?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Survey, they · What happens: overhear, find, drop, offer · To what, where: phone, offer, drop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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: Overheard on the phone: "Survey found damp and a dodgy roof, they've dropped the offer by ten grand."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 phone	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phone	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Overheard	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
7	Survey	survey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Overheard	parataxis
9	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 found	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 roof	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 roof	det
12	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 roof	amod
13	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 damp	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dropped	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dropped	nsubj
16	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dropped	aux
17	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 found	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 offer	det
19	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dropped	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 grand	case
21	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 grand	nummod
22	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dropped	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Overheard	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Overheard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overhear	participle				the phone			tree rules
2	find in a quote	past	Survey					damp property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	drop in a quote	present · perfect	they	the offer				by ten grand	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent offer=Theme by grand=Destination

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: Why did the offer drop?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 offer	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offer	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 offer	det
4	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offer	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 offer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past · do-support		drop					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent drop=Theme

The options

Option 1

The estate agent wanted a bigger fee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 agent	det
2	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agent	compound
3	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fee	det
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 fee	amod
7	fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the estate agent	a bigger fee					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fee=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The survey found problems that cost money to fix

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 survey	det
2	survey	survey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 cost	nsubj
6	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 problems	acl:relcl
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cost	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fix	mark
9	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cost	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the survey	problems					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic
2	cost	present	problems	money					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value
3	fix	to-infinitive	problems not said here						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The buyer just changed their mind about the colour of the walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 buyer	det
2	buyer	buyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changed	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 changed	advmod
4	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mind	nmod:poss
6	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changed	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 colour	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 colour	det
9	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 walls	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 walls	det
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 colour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	the buyer	their mind				about the colour of the walls	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
2	mind		their = they						nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Damp makes houses worth more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Damp	houses				worth property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset house=Beneficiary more=Product

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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