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Test 3 · Wages, salary and where family money comes from

Mo's dad lost his job and says calmly, "I'm getting some help from the government till I find a new one." A kid at school sneers. What's true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: lose, say, get, find, job, be · To what, where: job, help, government, new one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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: Mo's dad lost his job and says calmly, "I'm getting some help from the government till I find a new one."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mo	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 job	nmod:poss
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 says	cc
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	conj
9	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	8 says	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 getting	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 getting	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 getting	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 getting	aux
14	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 says	conj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 help	det
16	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 getting	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 government	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 government	det
19	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 getting	obl
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 find	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 find	nsubj
22	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 getting	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 one	det
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Mo's dad	dad's job					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Mo's dad not said here					calmly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	get in a quote	present · progressive	Mo's dad = dad	some help		the government			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent help=Theme from government=Source
4	find in a quote	present	Mo's dad = dad	a new one					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
5	job		dad						nom job «act intransitive»: 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: A kid at school sneers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 sneers	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sneers	compound
5	sneers	sneer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kid	nmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kid	punct

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

Sentence 3: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1

Mo's dad will never work again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mo	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 work	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 work	advmod
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	future	Mo's dad				again		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Getting help between jobs is normal and nothing to be ashamed of

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 normal	csubj
2	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Getting	obj
3	between	between	ADP	_	4 jobs	case
4	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 help	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 normal	cop
6	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nothing	cc
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 normal	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 ashamed	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 ashamed	cop
11	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nothing	acl
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 ashamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund		help				between jobs	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus
2	is	present	Getting					normal property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	Getting not said here					ashamed property	tree rules

Option 3

Help from the government is never allowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 government	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 government	det
4	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Help	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 allowed	aux:pass
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 allowed	advmod
7	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Help from the government					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only lazy people ever lose jobs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 lazy	advmod
2	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lose	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 lose	advmod
5	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	lazy people	jobs			ever		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

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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