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Test 4 · Moving house and renting a home

Your sister stuck posters up with tape in the rented flat, and the paint came off. What might happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: paint · What happens: rent, come off, happen

This is test 4 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: Your sister stuck posters up with tape in the rented flat, and the paint came off.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 posters	amod
4	posters	poster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sister	conj
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 posters	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 tape	case
7	tape	tape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 posters	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 flat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flat	det
10	rented	rent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 flat	amod
11	flat	flat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tape	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 paint	det
15	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sister	parataxis
17	off	off	ADV	_	16 came	compound:prt
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rent	participle							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	come off	past	the paint						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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: What might happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	might							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The landlord will pay the family a reward for the posters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 reward	det
8	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 posters	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 posters	det
11	posters	poster	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reward	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	future	the landlord	the family					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent family=Recipient reward=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Money for repairs can be taken from the deposit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	nsubj:pass
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 repairs	case
3	repairs	repair	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Money	nmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 taken	aux:pass
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 deposit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 deposit	det
9	deposit	deposit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	can · passive		Money for repairs		the deposit			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from deposit=Initial_Location

Option 3

The rent will go down next month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rent	det
2	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 month	amod
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	future	the rent				month	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Nothing, because renters never pay for damage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pay	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 pay	mark
4	renters	renter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pay	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 pay	advmod
6	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 damage	case
8	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pay	present	renters					for damage	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for damage=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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