Test 5 · ★ · Where money comes from

Your cousin says: "People on benefits are just lazy." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, People, you · What happens: say, be, put · To what, where: cousin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Your cousin says: "People on benefits are just lazy."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 lazy	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lazy	punct
6	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lazy	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 benefits	case
8	benefits	benefit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 People	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lazy	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 lazy	advmod
11	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lazy	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lazy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your cousin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	People on benefits					lazy property	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: Put him right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		cousin			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Benefits help people who are ill, caring or on low pay, and many work

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Benefits	benefit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 help	nsubj
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 help	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 ill	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	cop
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 caring	punct
8	caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 help	advcl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 pay	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 pay	case
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pay	amod
12	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caring	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 work	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 work	cc
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 work	amod
16	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 help	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	help	present	Benefits	people		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary
2	is	present	people		ill property	tree rules
3	care	gerund	Benefits not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He is right, benefits are only for lazy people who don't want to work

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 people	punct
5	benefits	benefit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 people	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 people	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 people	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 people	case
9	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 want	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 want	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 want	advmod
14	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 people	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 work	mark
16	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	He	right property	tree rules
2	is	present	benefits	for lazy people	tree rules
3	not want	present · do-support	lazy people		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	work not said to happen	to-infinitive	lazy people not said here		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Benefits are only for people who are rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Benefits	benefit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 people	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 people	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 people	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 rich	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rich	cop
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Benefits					for people	tree rules
2	is	present	people					rich property	tree rules

Option 4

Nobody in work ever gets any help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 gets	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 work	case
3	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nobody	nmod
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 gets	advmod
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 help	det
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Nobody	any help			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus

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