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Test 10 · Looking after yourself and a home

Big brother, about to sign a phone contract: "Dunno what half this says, just gonna sign it." What would a sensible adult do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Big brother, this, sensible adult · What happens: sign, say, do · To what, where: phone contract, contract · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 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: Big brother, about to sign a phone contract: "Dunno what half this says, just gonna sign it."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brother	amod
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sign	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sign	punct
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 sign	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sign	mark
6	sign	sign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 contract	det
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 contract	compound
9	contract	contract	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sign	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Dunno	punct
12	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 says	ccomp
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 says	obj
14	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	15 this	det:predet
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 says	nsubj
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sign	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sign	punct
18	just	just	ADV	_	20 sign	advmod
19	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	20 sign	dep
20	sign	sign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 says	ccomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sign	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sign	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sign	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sign	to-infinitive	Big brother	a phone contract				about property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent contract=Destination
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	this						tree rules
3	sign in a quote	infinitive		contract					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=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: What would a sensible adult do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 adult	det
4	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 adult	amod
5	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	a sensible adult						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Sign quickly before the deal goes away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sign	sign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Sign	advmod
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 goes	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 deal	det
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sign	advcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sign	imperative	you not said here					quickly property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go away	present	the deal					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Ask questions until he understands, then decide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ask	obj
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 understands	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 understands	nsubj
5	understands	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 decide	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 decide	advmod
8	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	questions					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	understand	present	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	decide	infinitive	you not said here				then		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Let the shop assistant sign it for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sign	det
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assistant	compound
4	assistant	assistant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sign	compound
5	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	the assistant sign				for him = he	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient it=Theme for he=Asset

Option 4

Sign with a made-up name to be safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	7 name	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 name	det
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 name	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sign	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	10 safe	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 safe	cop
10	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sign	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive						safe property	tree rules

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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