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Test 11 · ★★ · The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»

Maisie-Jo: «it's cos I asked for too much last year, isn't it». What does Dad's «It's the weather, girl» tell her?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, Dad · What happens: be, not be, tell · To what, where: Maisie Jo, it, weather, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 488 «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» 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: Maisie-Jo: «it's cos I asked for too much last year, isn't it».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maisie	Maisie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Jo	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Maisie	punct
3	Jo	Jo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Jo	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	cop
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 asked	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Jo	acl:relcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 year	case
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 year	amod
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 year	amod
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 it	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 year	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 it	cop
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 it	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	ccomp
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 Jo	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Jo	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be speech: ask in a quote	present	it	Maisie Jo not said here				ask property	tree rules
2	not is a in a quote	present		it			year		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: What does Dad's «It's the weather, girl» tell her?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
3	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tell	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Dad	case
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 weather	punct
6	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 weather	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 weather	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 weather	det
9	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Dad	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 girl	punct
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weather	appos
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 girl	punct
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	It	the weather					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	Dad		girl				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Dad blames her for the harvest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blames	nsubj
2	blames	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blames	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 harvest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 harvest	det
6	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blames	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	present	Dad	her = she				for the harvest	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for harvest=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's not her fault, or anybody's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fault	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fault	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fault	advmod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fault	nmod:poss
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 anybody	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 anybody	cc
8	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 fault	conj
9	's	's	PART	_	8 anybody	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	her fault					tree rules

Option 3

She asked for too much last year

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 year	case
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 year	amod
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	She				year		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The weather is angry with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weather	det
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 angry	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the weather					with them = they; angry property	tree rules

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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