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Test 1 · Looking after yourself and a home

Jess, in her first flat: "Toast for tea again lol, can't afford Deliveroo every night." What skill would help her most?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jess · What happens: not afford, help · To what, where: Deliveroo, skill

This is test 1 of lesson 38 «Looking after yourself and 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: Jess, in her first flat: "Toast for tea again lol, can't afford Deliveroo every night."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jess	Jess	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 afford	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flat	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 flat	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 flat	nmod:poss
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 flat	amod
6	flat	flat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jess	appos
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Toast	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Toast	punct
9	Toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flat	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 tea	case
11	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Toast	nmod
12	again	again	ADV	_	9 Toast	advmod
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	17 afford	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 afford	punct
15	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 afford	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 afford	advmod
17	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	Deliveroo	Deliveroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 afford	obj
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 afford	obl:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 afford	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 afford	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not afford in a quote	can	Jess	Deliveroo			night		tree rules

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 skill would help her most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 help	nsubj
2	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 help	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would			skill				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Buying a much bigger toaster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 toaster	det
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 bigger	advmod
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 toaster	amod
5	toaster	toaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	gerund		a bigger toaster					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toaster=Theme

Option 2

Moving back home to Gran's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Moving	advmod
3	home	home	ADV	_	1 Moving	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Gran	case
5	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Moving	obl
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Gran	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move back	gerund			Gran			home property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to gran=Result

Option 3

Ordering bigger takeaways less often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ordering	order	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 takeaways	amod
3	takeaways	takeaway	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ordering	obj
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 often	advmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	1 Ordering	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	gerund		bigger takeaways				often property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent takeaway=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cooking a few simple cheap meals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 meals	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meals	amod
4	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meals	amod
5	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meals	amod
6	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cooking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	gerund		a few simple cheap meals					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meal=Patient

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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