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Test 4 · ★ · Money, work and the big choices

Overheard: "Boiler's packed in, thank God we had a bit put by." What saved them?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: overhear, pack in, thank, have, put by, save · To what, where: God, bit, them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 39 «Money, work and the big choices» 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: "Boiler's packed in, thank God we had a bit put by."

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	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 packed	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 packed	punct
4	Boiler	Boiler	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 packed	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Boiler	case
6	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Overheard	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	6 packed	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thank	punct
9	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 packed	parataxis
10	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 thank	obj
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thank	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 bit	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	15 put	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thank	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 thank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overhear	participle							vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	pack in in a quote	participle							vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			God				tree rules
4	have in a quote	past	we	a bit					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
5	put by in a quote	participle		a bit not said here					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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 saved them?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 saved	nsubj
2	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saved	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past		them = they					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

The options

Option 1

A loan from the neighbours next door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 loan	det
2	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 neighbours	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 neighbours	det
5	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loan	nmod
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 door	amod
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

Money they had saved for emergencies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saved	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saved	aux
4	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Money	acl:relcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 emergencies	case
6	emergencies	emergency	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past · perfect	they	Money not said here				for emergencies	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme for emergency=Source

Option 3

The boiler company paying for it all as a favour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 company	det
2	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 company	compound
3	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 company	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paying	obl
7	all	all	ADV	_	4 paying	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 favour	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 favour	det
10	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	gerund	the boiler company not said here					for company; as a favour; all property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme

Option 4

A lucky lottery ticket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ticket	det
2	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ticket	amod
3	lottery	lottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ticket	compound
4	ticket	ticket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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