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Test 2 · ★ · When money is tight

Your mate says "Food banks are only for lazy people." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Food banks, you · What happens: say, be, put · To what, where: mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 9 «When money is tight» 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 mate says "Food banks are only for lazy 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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct
5	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 banks	compound
6	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 people	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 people	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 people	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Food banks					for lazy 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		mate			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1

Food banks are only for people with no house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 banks	compound
2	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 people	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 people	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 people	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Food banks					for people; with no house	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Any family can need one after a job loss or illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 need	obj
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 loss	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 loss	det
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loss	compound
9	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 illness	cc
11	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loss	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	can	any family	one			after a job loss or illness		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme

Option 3

Food banks sell food more cheaply to the rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 banks	compound
2	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sell	nsubj
3	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sell	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 cheaply	advmod
6	cheaply	cheaply	ADV	_	3 sell	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 rich	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rich	det
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	Food banks	food	the rich			cheaply property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to rich=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He is right, only lazy people use them

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	_	8 use	punct
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 people	advmod
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 use	nsubj
8	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	use	present	lazy people	them = they					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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