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Test 2 · ★★ · The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»

The meter runs out and Lorcan's little cousin yells, «we're gonna be in the dark FOREVER». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: meter, little cousin, we · What happens: run out, yell, be · To what, where: gonna dark · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: The meter runs out and Lorcan's little cousin yells, «we're gonna be in the dark FOREVER».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 meter	det
2	meter	meter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	nsubj
3	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 runs	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 yells	cc
6	Lorcan	Lorcan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cousin	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Lorcan	case
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cousin	amod
9	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 yells	nsubj
10	yells	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 runs	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dark	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 dark	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 dark	nsubj
14	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 dark	cop
15	gonna	gonna	X	_	19 dark	compound
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 dark	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 dark	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dark	det
19	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 yells	ccomp
20	FOREVER	forever	ADV	_	19 dark	advmod
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 dark	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 runs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	present	the meter						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	yell speech: express	present	Lorcan's little cousin						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	we			the gonna dark		forever property	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's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Electricity only comes back on the next birthday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 birthday	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 birthday	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 birthday	amod
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	Electricity			the next birthday			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on birthday=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They'll be in the dark only until it's topped up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dark	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dark	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	11 topped	advmod
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 topped	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 topped	nsubj:pass
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 topped	aux:pass
11	topped	top	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dark	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 topped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	They			the dark			tree rules
2	top up	present · passive		dark					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme

Option 3

The power company takes the whole house away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 company	det
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 company	compound
3	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	nsubj
4	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	4 takes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	the power company	the whole house				away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 4

Once a meter runs out it can never be refilled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	SCONJ	_	4 runs	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 meter	det
3	meter	meter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 refilled	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 runs	compound:prt
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 refilled	nsubj:pass
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 refilled	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 refilled	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 refilled	aux:pass
10	refilled	refill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	present	a meter						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not refill	can · passive		meter					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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