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Test 7 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, fi…

Gran reads a letter: "Your account is three months in arrears." What does it mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gran, account, Your · What happens: read, be, account, mean · To what, where: letter, three months, arrears

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms 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: Gran reads a letter: "Your account is three months in arrears."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 letter	det
4	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 months	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 months	punct
7	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 account	nmod:poss
8	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 months	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 months	cop
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 months	nummod
11	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reads	obl:unmarked
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 arrears	case
13	arrears	arrear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 months	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reads	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Gran	a letter					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	Your account	three months		arrears			tree rules
3	account in a quote		Your						nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 it 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	account						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The account is closed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 account	det
2	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closed	aux:pass
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	present · passive		the account					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She is behind on payments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 payments	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 payments	cop
3	behind	behind	ADV	_	5 payments	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 payments	case
5	payments	payment	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She			payments		behind property	tree rules

Option 3

She is three months ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 months	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 months	cop
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 months	nummod
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	4 months	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	She	three months				ahead property	tree rules

Option 4

She has a bonus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bonus	det
4	bonus	bonus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	She	a bonus					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bonus=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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