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Test 2 · ★★ · Borrowing and debt

Overheard on the phone: "Look, I've only paid the minimum for two years and it's barely gone down!" Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, minimum · What happens: overhear, look, pay, go down · To what, where: phone, minimum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: Overheard on the phone: "Look, I've only paid the minimum for two years and it's barely gone down!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 phone	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phone	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Overheard	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Look	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Look	punct
7	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Overheard	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 paid	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 paid	nsubj
10	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 paid	aux
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 paid	advmod
12	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 Look	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 minimum	det
14	minimum	minimum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paid	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 years	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 paid	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gone	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gone	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	aux
21	barely	barely	ADV	_	22 gone	advmod
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 paid	conj
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 gone	compound:prt
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Look	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overhear	participle				the phone			tree rules
2	look in a quote	infinitive							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	pay in a quote	present · perfect	I	the minimum			year		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minimum=Asset
4	go down in a quote	present · passive	minimum					barely property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The bank forgot to take his payments for two whole years

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	3 forgot	nsubj
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forgot	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 payments	nmod:poss
7	payments	payment	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 years	amod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	the bank						tree rules
2	not take	to-infinitive	the bank not said here	bank's payments			year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent payment=Theme
3	pay		bank						nom payment «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Minimum payments cancel each other out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Minimum	minimum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 payments	amod
2	payments	payment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cancel	nsubj
3	cancel	cancel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 cancel	obj
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	out	out	ADP	_	3 cancel	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel out	present	Minimum payments	each					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The minimum mostly paid the interest, not the debt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 minimum	det
2	minimum	minimum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	nsubj
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 paid	advmod
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 interest	det
6	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 debt	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 debt	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 debt	det
10	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the minimum	the interest				the debt obl; mostly property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Asset

Option 4

The debt grows only on weekends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 debt	det
2	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 weekends	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 weekends	case
6	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the debt				weekend		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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