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Test 11 · ★★ · Borrowing and debt

Grandad: "Savings and debts grow the same way, kid." What does he mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad · What happens: grow, mean · To what, where: same way

This is test 11 · ★★ 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: Grandad: "Savings and debts grow the same way, kid."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grow	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 grow	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 grow	punct
4	Savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 grow	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 debts	cc
6	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Savings	conj
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grow	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kid	punct
12	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 way	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grow	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	present	Grandad	the same way and kid					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 does he mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	Grandad						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Debts shrink while savings grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shrink	nsubj
2	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 grow	mark
4	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shrink	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	present	Debts						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	grow	present	savings						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Interest is only paid on savings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 paid	advmod
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 savings	case
6	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · passive		Interest		savings			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Interest builds up on both over time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 builds	nsubj
2	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 builds	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 both	case
5	both	both	ADV	_	2 builds	obl
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 time	case
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 builds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build up	present	Interest				time		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Savings grow only if you have no debts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 have	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 debts	det
8	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Savings						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	present	you	no debts					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Patient

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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