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Test 6 · ★★ · The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»

In a TV show, a kid secretly sells his bike to pay his family's rent and saves the day. What's more real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, family · What happens: sell, pay, save, rent, be · To what, where: bike, TV show, rent

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: In a TV show, a kid secretly sells his bike to pay his family's rent and saves the day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 show	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 show	det
3	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	compound
4	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sells	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kid	det
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sells	nsubj
8	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	9 sells	advmod
9	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bike	nmod:poss
11	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sells	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pay	mark
13	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sells	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 family	nmod:poss
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rent	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 family	case
17	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pay	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saves	cc
19	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sells	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saves	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	a kid	kid's bike		a TV show		secretly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme
2	pay	to-infinitive	a kid not said here	kid's family's rent					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Asset
3	save	present	a kid not said here				day		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	rent		kid's family						nom rent «possession 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.

Sentence 2: What's more real?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Every kid can pay the rent by selling toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rent	det
6	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obj
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 selling	mark
8	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 pay	advcl
9	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 selling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	can	every kid	the rent					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Asset
2	sell	gerund	every kid not said here	toys					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Rent is a grown-up's job, and kids can't fix it

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 job	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 job	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 up	det
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 up	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 grown	punct
6	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 job	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 up	case
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fix	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fix	cc
11	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fix	nsubj
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fix	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 fix	advmod
14	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 job	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	Rent	a grown up's job					tree rules
3	not fix	can	kids	Rent					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Selling one bike pays rent for a whole year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 pays	csubj
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bike	nummod
3	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Selling	obj
4	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pays	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 year	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund		one bike					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme
2	pay	present	Selling	rent			year		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Asset

Option 4

Landlords only accept money from children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Landlords	landlord	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 accept	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 accept	advmod
3	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accept	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 accept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	present	Landlords	money				from children	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from child=Source

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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