Test 1 · Wages, salary and where family money comes from
Ruby sees "Earned £2,500, take-home £2,000" and shrieks "who nicked the rest?!" What's the answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ruby, answer · What happens: see, earn, take, shriek, nick, be · To what, where: home, rest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 20 «Wages, salary and where family money comes from» of the money 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: Ruby sees "Earned £2,500, take-home £2,000" and shrieks "who nicked the rest?!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sees | nsubj |
| 2 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Earned | punct |
| 4 | Earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sees | xcomp |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 4 Earned | obj |
| 6 | 2,500 | 2500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 sees | parataxis |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 home | punct |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 10 home | nmod |
| 12 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 £ | nummod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shrieks | cc |
| 15 | shrieks | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sees | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 nicked | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 nicked | nsubj |
| 18 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shrieks | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nicked | obj |
| 21 | ?! | ?! | PUNCT | _ | 18 nicked | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 nicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Ruby | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | earn in a quote | participle | Ruby not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | home | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shriek | present | Ruby not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | nick in a quote | past | the rest | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient |
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 the answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nobody; £500 went on tax and pension
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 went | nsubj |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 £ | punct |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 1 Nobody | appos |
| 4 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 tax | case |
| 7 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pension | cc |
| 9 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tax | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Nobody | tax and pension | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tax=Location |
Option 2
It went on Dad's lunches
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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 lunches | case |
| 4 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lunches | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Dad | case |
| 6 | lunches | lunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | It | Dad's lunches | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on lunch=Location |
Option 3
Dad's boss forgot to pay it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boss | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dad | case |
| 3 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgot | nsubj |
| 4 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pay | mark |
| 6 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forgot | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pay | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Dad's boss | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not pay | to-infinitive | Dad's boss not said here | boss | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
Option 4
The bank kept it as a fee for looking after the money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bank | det |
| 2 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 fee | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fee | det |
| 7 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obl |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 looking | mark |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 kept | advcl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 money | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 money | det |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the bank | it | as a fee | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | the bank not said here | after the money | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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