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Test 3 · ★ · Where money comes from

Dad, mid-January: "Skint till the 31st, it's beans on toast, kids." Why so skint?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be · To what, where: beans, toast

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 5 «Where money comes from» 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: Dad, mid-January: "Skint till the 31st, it's beans on toast, kids."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mid-January	punct
3	mid-January	mid-January	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Dad	appos
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Skint	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Skint	punct
6	Skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dad	parataxis
7	till	till	ADP	_	9 31st	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 31st	det
9	31st	31st	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	6 Skint	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beans	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 beans	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 beans	cop
13	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Skint	parataxis
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 toast	case
15	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beans	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kids	punct
17	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 beans	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 beans	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Skint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	beans and kids		toast			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: Why so skint?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 skint	advmod
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 skint	advmod
3	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 skint	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Beans are cheaper only in January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cheaper	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cheaper	cop
3	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 January	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 January	case
6	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cheaper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Beans				january	cheap property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Christmas spending and an early December payday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spending	compound
2	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 payday	cc
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 payday	det
5	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 payday	amod
6	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 payday	compound
7	payday	payday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spending	conj

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

Option 3

His wages were cut in January by his boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wages	nmod:poss
2	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux:pass
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 January	case
6	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 boss	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 boss	nmod:poss
9	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past · passive	his boss	His wages			january		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

Option 4

The banks close in January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 banks	det
2	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 close	nsubj
3	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 January	case
5	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	present	the banks				january		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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