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Test 3 · ★ · Paying for a home and the bills

Dad mutters "bloody energy prices, it's the war again". Why would a war far away change the bill?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dad, it, war · What happens: mutter, be, change · To what, where: bloody energy prices, war, bill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 6 «Paying for a home and the bills» 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 mutters "bloody energy prices, it's the war again".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mutters	nsubj
2	mutters	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 prices	punct
4	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prices	amod
5	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prices	compound
6	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mutters	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 war	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 war	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 war	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 war	det
11	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mutters	parataxis
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 war	advmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 war	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mutters	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mutter speech: assert	present	Dad	bloody energy prices					tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	it	the war			again		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 would a war far away change the bill?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 change	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 change	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 war	det
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 change	nsubj
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 war	advmod
7	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bill	det
9	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 change	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 change	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	a war	the bill					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Patient

The options

Option 1

The council adds a special war tax to every bill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 council	det
2	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adds	nsubj
3	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tax	det
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tax	amod
6	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tax	compound
7	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adds	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 bill	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 bill	det
10	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	the council	a special war tax				to every bill	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent tax=Patient to bill=Co-Patient

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

Energy prices rise and fall with world events

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prices	compound
2	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rise	nsubj
3	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fall	cc
5	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rise	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 events	case
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 events	compound
8	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	Energy prices					with world events	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	present	Energy prices not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Wars use up all the electricity in our street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 use	compound:prt
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 electricity	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 electricity	det
6	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 street	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 street	nmod:poss
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use up	present	Wars	all electricity		our street			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient

Option 4

Soldiers read the smart meters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meters	det
4	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meters	amod
5	meters	meter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	Soldiers	the smart meters					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meter=Topic

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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