Kid hears Mum on the phone borrowing money for his trip. He feels awful. What would Mum most likely say?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kid · What happens: hear, borrow, trip, feel, mum, say · To what, where: Mum, phone, money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 453 «Lied to by someone you love» 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: Kid hears Mum on the phone borrowing money for his trip.
vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus
2
borrow
gerund
money
for Kid's trip
vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3
trip
Kid
nom trip «act 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.
vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
Option 3
You must not go on the trip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
You
you
PRON
Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs
4 go
nsubj
2
must
must
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
4 go
aux
3
not
not
PART
Polarity=Neg
4 go
advmod
4
go
go
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
5
on
on
ADP
_
7 trip
case
6
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
7 trip
det
7
trip
trip
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 go
obl
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
notgo
must
You
the trip
vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trip=Location
Option 4
You should pay me back now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
You
you
PRON
Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs
3 pay
nsubj
2
should
should
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
3 pay
aux
3
pay
pay
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
4
me
I
PRON
Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs
3 pay
iobj
5
back
back
ADV
_
3 pay
advmod
6
now
now
ADV
PronType=Dem
3 pay
advmod
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
pay back
should
You
me
now
vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset
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.