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Test 7 · Cards, banks and apps

Your mate says "That cash machine says £2.50 fee, but whatever, it's only once." Why might a grown-up still walk on?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, cash machine, machine, grown up · What happens: say, be, grow, walk on · To what, where: £ fee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: Your mate says "That cash machine says £2.50 fee, but whatever, it's only once."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
5	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 machine	det
6	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 machine	compound
7	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
9	£	£	SYM	_	11 fee	compound
10	2.50	2.50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 £	nummod
11	fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 whatever	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 whatever	cc
14	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 says	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 whatever	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 once	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 once	cop
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 once	advmod
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 whatever	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	that cash machine	£ fee				whatever obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fee=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	machine					once 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: Why might a grown-up still walk on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 walk	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 walk	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 up	det
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 up	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walk	nsubj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 walk	advmod
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 walk	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk on	might	a grown up				still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

The fees all go straight to charity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fees	det
2	fees	fee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 charity	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 charity	case
7	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the fees			charity			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to charity=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The fee is only charged to children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fee	det
2	fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 charged	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 charged	aux:pass
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 charged	advmod
5	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 charged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	present · passive		the fee				to children	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Small fees add up over a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fees	amod
2	fees	fee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 add	nsubj
3	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 add	compound:prt
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 year	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 add	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add up speech: assert	present	Small fees				year		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Free machines give out extra money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 machines	amod
2	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 give	compound:prt
5	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 money	amod
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give out	present	Free machines	extra money					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=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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