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Test 10 · ★★ · Borrowing and debt

Mum, quietly: "We'll be fine, the debt people are helping us." What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: We, debt people, you · What happens: be, help, do · To what, where: us

This is test 10 · ★★ 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: Mum, quietly: "We'll be fine, the debt people are helping us."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 quietly	punct
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Mum	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
6	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 fine	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mum	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 helping	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
12	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 people	compound
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 helping	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 helping	aux
15	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fine	parataxis
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 helping	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 helping	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 helping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	We					fine property	tree rules
2	help in a quote	present · progressive	the debt people		us				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary

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 should you do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Trust that the grown-ups are sorting it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sorting	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ups	det
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ups	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 grown	punct
6	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sorting	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sorting	aux
8	sorting	sort	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Trust	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sorting	obj

#	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	sort	present · progressive	the grown ups	that					tree rules

Option 2

Worry in secret every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 secret	case
3	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Worry	nmod
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Worry	obl:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Give all your pocket money to the bank to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 money	det:predet
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 money	nmod:poss
4	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 money	compound
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bank	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bank	det
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 help	mark
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	your pocket money	the bank				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to bank=Recipient
2	help	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Ask the neighbours to lend you money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbours	det
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lend	mark
5	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 lend	obj
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the neighbours					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lend not said to happen	to-infinitive	the neighbours not said here	money	you				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient 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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