Test 4 · Cards, banks and apps
Dad on the phone, stressed: "We're £200 in the red till payday." What is happening?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: stress, happen · To what, where: Dad
This is test 4 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: Dad on the phone, stressed: "We're £200 in the red till payday."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stressed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 phone | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 phone | det |
| 4 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dad | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stressed | punct |
| 6 | stressed | stress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 £ | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 £ | punct |
| 9 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 £ | nsubj |
| 10 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 £ | cop |
| 11 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 6 stressed | obl |
| 12 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 £ | nummod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 red | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 red | det |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 £ | nmod |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 payday | case |
| 17 | payday | payday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 £ | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stressed | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 stressed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stress | participle · passive | Dad on the phone | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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 happening?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happening | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happening | aux |
| 3 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happening | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · progressive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The bank owes the family £200
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bank | det |
| 2 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owes | nsubj |
| 3 | owes | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 family | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owes | obj |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 owes | obj |
| 7 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present | the bank | the family | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent family=Goal £=Theme |
Option 2
Payday has been cancelled this month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Payday | payday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cancelled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cancelled | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 cancelled | aux:pass |
| 4 | cancelled | cancel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 month | det |
| 6 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cancelled | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cancel | present · perfect · passive | Payday | month | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The account is below zero, in the overdraft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 account | det |
| 2 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 zero | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 zero | cop |
| 4 | below | below | ADV | _ | 5 zero | advmod |
| 5 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 overdraft | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 overdraft | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 overdraft | det |
| 9 | overdraft | overdraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 zero | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the account | zero and the overdraft | below property | tree rules |
Option 4
The family has £200 saved up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 has | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 saved | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the family | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | save up | participle | the family not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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