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Test 6 · ★ · Paying for a home and the bills

Mum: "rent's gone up 100 quid, so no takeaway friday for a while." Why no takeaway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rent · What happens: go up · To what, where: 100 quid

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Mum: "rent's gone up 100 quid, so no takeaway friday for a while."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct
4	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Mum	appos
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 gone	compound:prt
8	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 quid	nummod
9	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 friday	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 friday	advmod
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 friday	det
13	takeaway	takeaway	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 friday	compound
14	friday	friday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 while	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 while	det
17	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 friday	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up in a quote	present · passive	rent	100 quid				no takeaway friday for a while obl	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient quid=Extent

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 no takeaway?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 takeaway	det
3	takeaway	takeaway	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Takeaways cost more when rent rises

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Takeaways	takeaway	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cost	nsubj
2	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 cost	obj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 rises	advmod
5	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rises	nsubj
6	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cost	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	Takeaways	more					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value
2	rise	present	rent						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Takeaways are banned by the council when the rent rises

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Takeaways	takeaway	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banned	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	aux:pass
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 council	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 council	det
6	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banned	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 rises	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rent	det
9	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rises	nsubj
10	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	present · passive	the council	Takeaways					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme
2	rise	present	the rent						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The landlord does not allow takeaways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 allow	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allow	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 allow	advmod
5	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	takeaways	takeaway	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 allow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · do-support	the landlord	takeaways					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent takeaway=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

More money goes on rent, so extras must shrink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 money	amod
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 rent	case
5	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shrink	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 shrink	advmod
8	extras	extra	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shrink	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 shrink	aux
10	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 goes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	More money			rent			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on rent=Location
2	shrink	must	extras						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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