Test 6 · Cards, banks and apps
Mum scrolls the statement and gasps "What's this £9.99 every month since March??" What has probably happened?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: scroll, gasp, be, happen · To what, where: statement, £ month
This is test 6 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: Mum scrolls the statement and gasps "What's this £9.99 every month since March??"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scrolls | nsubj |
| 2 | scrolls | scroll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 statement | det |
| 4 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scrolls | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gasps | cc |
| 6 | gasps | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 scrolls | conj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 month | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 month | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 month | cop |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 month | nsubj |
| 11 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 14 month | compound |
| 12 | 9.99 | 9.99 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 £ | nummod |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 month | det |
| 14 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gasps | obl |
| 15 | since | since | ADP | _ | 16 March | case |
| 16 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 month | nmod |
| 17 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 2 scrolls | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 scrolls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scroll | present | Mum | the statement | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gasp | present | Mum not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | every £ month | march | 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 has probably happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | aux |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · perfect | probably property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The bank has given her a present each month
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 | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 present | det |
| 7 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 month | det |
| 9 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect · passive | the bank | month | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A forgotten subscription kept taking money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 subscription | det |
| 2 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 subscription | amod |
| 3 | subscription | subscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | keep | past | a forgotten subscription | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | a forgotten subscription not said here | money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
Option 3
The cash machine charged her once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 machine | det |
| 2 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 machine | compound |
| 3 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 charged | nsubj |
| 4 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 charged | iobj |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 charged | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | past | the cash machine | her = she | once property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location she=Theme |
Option 4
Someone paid her back for a takeaway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 paid | nsubj |
| 2 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 paid | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 paid | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 takeaway | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 takeaway | det |
| 7 | takeaway | takeaway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay back | past | Someone | her = she | for a takeaway | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Asset for takeaway=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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