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Test 3 · ★★ · The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»

Rosie: «we can NEVER afford anything, you don't even care!» What's more likely true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, you · What happens: not afford, not care, be · To what, where: anything

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Rosie: «we can NEVER afford anything, you don't even care!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rosie	Rosie	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 care	vocative
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 afford	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 afford	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 afford	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 afford	aux
6	NEVER	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 afford	advmod
7	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Rosie	acl:relcl
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 afford	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rosie	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 care	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 care	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 care	advmod
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 care	advmod
14	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 care	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 care	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not afford in a quote	can	we	anything					tree rules
2	not care in a quote	present · do-support	you					Rosie vocative	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 more likely true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 true	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 true	amod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 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

Dad would rather buy himself a new phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buy	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 buy	aux
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 buy	advmod
4	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 buy	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 phone	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 phone	amod
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	would	Dad	a new phone	Dad				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary phone=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Dad has money but wants to punish her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 wants	cc
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 punish	mark
7	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 punish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Dad	money					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	want	present	Dad not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	punish not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dad not said here	her = she					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3

Dad will change his mind if she slams doors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mind	nmod:poss
5	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 slams	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slams	nsubj
8	slams	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 change	advcl
9	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slams	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	future	Dad	Dad's mind					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
2	slam a condition, not said to happen	present	she	doors					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	mind		Dad						nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Dad cares, there just isn't enough money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cares	nsubj
2	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 is	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 is	advmod
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cares	conj
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 is	advmod
8	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 money	amod
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	present	Dad						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not be	present	enough money			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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