Test 12 · ★ · Worry and sadness

mum n dad keep whispering about money, should i give them my savings

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, i, my · What happens: keep, whisper, give, save · To what, where: savings, mum

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 91 «Worry and sadness» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
2	n	n	X	_	3 dad	compound
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mum	conj
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	whispering	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 money	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whispering	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keep	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 savings	nmod:poss
14	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	mum and n dad				tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	gerund	mum and n dad not said here			about money	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about money=Topic
3	give	should	i	my savings	mum		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient savings=Theme
4	save		my				nom savings «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Money at home is a grown-up problem to sort out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 problem	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 home	case
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Money	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 problem	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 problem	det
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 problem	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 grown	compound:prt
9	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sort	mark
11	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 problem	acl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 sort	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow up	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	Money at home	a grown problem	tree rules
3	sort out	to-infinitive			vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, and get a job after school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 get	cc
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 job	det
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	a job			after school		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus

Option 3

Worry about it every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 night	compound
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Worry	nmod
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, children must help pay the bills when money is short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 help	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 help	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bills	det
8	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pay	obj
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 short	mark
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 short	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 short	cop
12	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 help	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	must	children			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	pay	infinitive	children not said here	the bills		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset
3	is	present	money		short 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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