Test 11 · Wages, salary and where family money comes from
Isla's mate reckons "money just comes out the hole in the wall, innit." ("Hole in the wall" means a cash machine.) Where does it really come from?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, money, Hole · What happens: reckon, come out, mean, be · To what, where: hole, wall, cash machine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 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: Isla's mate reckons "money just comes out the hole in the wall, innit."
vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2
come outin a quote
present
money
the hole and innit
the wall
vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result
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: ("Hole in the wall" means a cash machine.)
vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
From the family's bank account, filled mostly by pay from work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
From
from
ADP
_
6 account
case
2
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
3 family
det
3
family
family
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 account
nmod:poss
4
's
's
PART
_
3 family
case
5
bank
bank
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 account
compound
6
account
account
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
7
,
,
PUNCT
_
8 filled
punct
8
filled
fill
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
6 account
acl
9
mostly
mostly
ADV
_
8 filled
advmod
10
by
by
ADP
_
11 pay
case
11
pay
pay
NOUN
Number=Sing
8 filled
obl
12
from
from
ADP
_
13 work
case
13
work
work
NOUN
Number=Sing
11 pay
nmod
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
fill
participle
the family's bank account not said here
by pay from work; mostly property
vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2
account
the family
nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent
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.