Test 9 · ★ · What fights cost at home
«my mum took a day off for that meeting about the bus shelter lads, cost her loads». Who was really at fault?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum · What happens: take off, cost, be · To what, where: loads, fault
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 376 «What fights cost at home» of the everyday 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: «my mum took a day off for that meeting about the bus shelter lads, cost her loads».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 meeting | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 meeting | det |
| 10 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 lads | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lads | det |
| 13 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shelter | compound |
| 14 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lads | compound |
| 15 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 meeting | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cost | punct |
| 17 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | parataxis |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 loads | nmod:poss |
| 19 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cost | obj |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 cost | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off in a quote | past | my mum | day | for that meeting about the shelter lads | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | cost in a quote | past | mum's loads | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme load=Value |
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: Who was really at fault?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 fault | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fault | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 fault | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 fault | case |
| 5 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fault | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fault | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The boys who picked on Sam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 picked | nsubj |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 boys | acl:relcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Sam | case |
| 6 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | past | the boys | on Sam | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on sam=Patient |
Option 2
Sam's mum, for going to the school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 going | mark |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 mum | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 school | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 school | det |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | Sam's mum not said here | the school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location |
Option 3
The bus driver, for not stopping the boys on the bus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 driver | det |
| 2 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 driver | compound |
| 3 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopping | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 stopping | mark |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 stopping | advmod |
| 7 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 driver | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boys | det |
| 9 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stopping | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 bus | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bus | det |
| 12 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopping | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | gerund | the bus driver not said here | the boys | the bus | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality boy=Eventuality |
Option 4
Sam, for being picked on so much
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sam | punct |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 picked | mark |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 picked | aux:pass |
| 5 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Sam | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 picked | compound:prt |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 picked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick on | gerund · passive | Sam not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V» |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/t9/