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Test 6 · ★ · Where money comes from

Mum: "Child benefit's in, that's school shoes sorted." What is child benefit for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Child benefit, that, Mum · What happens: be, sort · To what, where: school shoes

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Mum: "Child benefit's in, that's school shoes sorted."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sorted	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 in	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 in	punct
4	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 benefit	compound
5	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 in	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 in	cop
7	in	in	ADV	_	1 Mum	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shoes	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 shoes	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 shoes	cop
11	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shoes	compound
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sorted	nsubj
13	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sorted	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 sorted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Child benefit					in property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	that	school shoes					tree rules
3	sort in a quote	past	Mum						vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: 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 is child benefit for?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 benefit	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 benefit	cop
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 benefit	compound
4	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	4 benefit	case
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 benefit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						for child benefit	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Buying presents for the parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Buying	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 parents	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parents	det
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Buying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	gerund		presents				for the parents	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent present=Theme for parent=Beneficiary

Option 2

Paying children for doing their homework every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Paying	obj
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 doing	mark
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Paying	conj
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 homework	nmod:poss
6	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	gerund		children					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Asset
2	do	gerund		children's homework			night		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality

Option 3

Paying the school fees of private schools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fees	det
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fees	compound
4	fees	fee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Paying	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 schools	case
6	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 schools	amod
7	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fees	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	gerund		the school fees of private schools					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Helping with the costs of bringing up children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 costs	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 costs	det
4	costs	cost	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Helping	obl
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 bringing	mark
6	bringing	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 costs	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 bringing	compound:prt
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bringing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	gerund						with the costs	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cost=Theme
2	bring up	gerund	the costs not said here	children					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=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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