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Test 1 · ★★ · Borrowing and debt

Your brother says "Debt means we're bad people." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, Debt, we, you · What happens: say, mean, be, put · To what, where: bad people, Debt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Borrowing and debt» 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 brother says "Debt means we're bad people."

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 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
5	Debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 people	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 people	cop
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 means	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean in a quote	present	Debt						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	we	bad people					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: Put him right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		Debt			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1

Debt means the family will lose everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lose	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lose	aux
6	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Debt						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose	future	the family	everything					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality

Option 2

Debt means the bank owns the children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bank	det
4	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 owns	nsubj
5	owns	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 owns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Debt						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	own	present	the bank	the children					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot child=Theme

Option 3

He is right, only bad people ever borrow money from a bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 borrow	punct
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 people	advmod
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 borrow	nsubj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 borrow	advmod
9	borrow	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 borrow	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 bank	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bank	det
13	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 borrow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	borrow	present	bad people	money		a bank	ever		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from bank=Source

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Debt is common, most adults have some, and it can be sorted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 common	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 common	cop
3	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 adults	amod
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 common	conj
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sorted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sorted	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sorted	nsubj:pass
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sorted	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 sorted	aux:pass
14	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 common	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Debt					common property	tree rules
2	have	present	most adults	some					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
3	sort	can · passive		Debt					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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