Test 4 · ★★ · Borrowing and debt
Dad grumbles "Missed one phone payment and now the flat agency won't rent to us." What has probably happened?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, flat agency · What happens: grumble, miss, not rent, happen · To what, where: one phone payment, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Dad grumbles "Missed one phone payment and now the flat agency won't rent to us."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grumbles | nsubj |
| 2 | grumbles | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Missed | punct |
| 4 | Missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grumbles | parataxis |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 payment | nummod |
| 6 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 payment | compound |
| 7 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Missed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rent | cc |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 rent | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 agency | det |
| 11 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 agency | amod |
| 12 | agency | agency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rent | nsubj |
| 13 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 rent | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 rent | advmod |
| 15 | rent | rent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Missed | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 us | case |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 rent | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grumbles | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 grumbles | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grumble speech: other | present | Dad | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | miss in a quote | past | one phone payment | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer payment=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not rent in a quote | future | the flat agency | us | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to we=Recipient |
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 has probably happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | aux |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · perfect | probably property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Missing payments raises the score
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 payments | amod |
| 2 | payments | payment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raises | nsubj |
| 3 | raises | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 score | det |
| 5 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raises | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | present | Missing payments | the score | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
His credit score dropped from the missed payment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 score | nmod:poss |
| 2 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 score | compound |
| 3 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 score | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 payment | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 payment | det |
| 7 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 payment | amod |
| 8 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | participle | His credit score not said here | the missed payment | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from payment=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | miss | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | score | His = he | nom score «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
Phone companies own all the flats in the town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 companies | compound |
| 2 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 own | nsubj |
| 3 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 flats | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flats | det |
| 6 | flats | flat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 own | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 own | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | present | Phone companies | all flats | the town | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot flat=Theme |
Option 4
The agency does not like his phone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 agency | det |
| 2 | agency | agency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 phone | nmod:poss |
| 7 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | present · do-support | the agency | agency's phone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot phone=Theme |
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