Test 10 · Wages, salary and where family money comes from

What would happen if a family paid monthly spent most of its pay in the first week?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: happen, spend, pay · To what, where: family

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 spent	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spent	nsubj
7	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spent	aux:pass
8	monthly	monthly	ADV	_	9 spent	advmod
9	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 spent	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 pay	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pay	nmod:poss
13	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 most	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 week	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 week	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 week	amod
17	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spent	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spend a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a family	week	monthly property	tree rules
3	pay		family				nom pay «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 bank would add more money free when it ran low

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	4 add	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 add	aux
4	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 money	amod
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 add	obj
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 add	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 ran	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 add	advcl
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ran	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	would	the bank	more money				free property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	run	past	bank					low property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Money would run very short before the next payday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 short	advmod
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 run	xcomp
6	before	before	ADP	_	9 payday	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 payday	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 payday	amod
9	payday	payday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	Money			the next payday		short property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before payday=Trajectory

Option 3

The next payday would come sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 payday	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 payday	amod
3	payday	payday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	the next payday					soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, pay lasts however you spend it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 pay	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lasts	nsubj
4	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	however	however	ADV	_	7 spend	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 spend	nsubj
7	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lasts	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	Nothing pay						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	spend	present	you	pay				however property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset

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