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Test 10 · Cards, banks and apps

Nan says "Keep your money under the mattress, banks are useless." What is a good reply?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nan, banks · What happens: say, keep, be · To what, where: money, mattress, good reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 7 «Cards, banks and apps» 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: Nan says "Keep your money under the mattress, banks are useless."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Keep	punct
4	Keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	xcomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 money	nmod:poss
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Keep	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 mattress	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mattress	det
9	mattress	mattress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Keep	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 useless	punct
11	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 useless	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 useless	cop
13	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 useless	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 useless	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Nan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep in a quote	infinitive	Nan not said here	your money		the mattress			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme under mattress=Location
3	is in a quote	present	banks					useless 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: What is a good reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reply	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reply	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reply	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a good reply					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A bank keeps it safer and may pay interest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bank	det
2	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keeps	obj
5	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 keeps	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pay	cc
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 pay	aux
8	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 keeps	conj
9	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a bank	it				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	pay	may	a bank not said here	interest					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Asset

Option 2

Money under a mattress earns more interest than a bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 earns	nsubj
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 mattress	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mattress	det
4	mattress	mattress	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Money	nmod
5	earns	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 interest	amod
7	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 earns	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 bank	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bank	det
10	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 interest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	earn	present	Money under a mattress	more interest				than a bank	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme

Option 3

Banks spend children's savings on their own staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spend	nsubj
2	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 savings	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 children	case
5	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 spend	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 staff	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 staff	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 staff	amod
9	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	present	Banks	children's savings				on Banks's own staff goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent savings=Asset on staff=Goal
2	save		children						nom savings «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Banks always charge you for keeping savings safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 charge	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 charge	advmod
3	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 charge	iobj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 keeping	mark
6	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 charge	advcl
7	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 keeping	obj
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keeping	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	present	Banks		you			always property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location you=Theme
2	keep	gerund	Banks not said here	savings				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent savings=Theme

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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