Test 6 · ★ · Money, work and the big choices
Big brother: "I'll just say I've got a degree on my CV, nobody checks, innit." What's wrong with that?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, nobody · What happens: say, get, check, be · To what, where: Big brother, degree, CV, innit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Big brother: "I'll just say I've got a degree on my CV, nobody checks, innit."
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 | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 6 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 say | advmod |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 brother | acl:relcl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | aux |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 say | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 degree | det |
| 13 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 CV | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 CV | nmod:poss |
| 16 | CV | cv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 degree | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 checks | punct |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 checks | nsubj |
| 19 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 innit | punct |
| 21 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 checks | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brother | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 brother | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | future | I | Big brother not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect | I | a degree | my CV | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent degree=Theme on cv=Source | |||
| 3 | check in a quote | present | nobody | innit | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innit=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's wrong with that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wrong | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with that; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, everyone does that
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 does | obj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 does | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | everyone | Nothing | tree rules |
Option 2
A CV must be handwritten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 CV | det |
| 2 | CV | cv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 handwritten | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 handwritten | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 handwritten | aux:pass |
| 5 | handwritten | handwrite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | handwrite | must · passive | a CV | tree rules |
Option 3
A CV must be in French
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 CV | det |
| 2 | CV | cv | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 French | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 French | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 French | case |
| 6 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 CV | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | French | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A CV must be honest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 CV | det |
| 2 | CV | cv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 honest | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 honest | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 honest | cop |
| 5 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | a CV | honest 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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