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Test 9 · Wages, salary and where family money comes from

Theo's dad: "The week before payday, we're always counting pennies." Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: count · To what, where: pennies

This is test 9 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: Theo's dad: "The week before payday, we're always counting pennies."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Theo	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 counting	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 week	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 week	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dad	appos
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 payday	case
9	payday	payday	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 week	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dad	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 counting	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 counting	aux
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 counting	advmod
14	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 counting	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 counting	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 counting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count in a quote	present · progressive	Theo's dad	pennies				always property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Theme

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He just likes counting coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 likes	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 likes	advmod
3	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 likes	xcomp
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 counting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	count not said to happen	gerund	He not said here	coins					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

Option 2

The bank closes for a week every month

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 closes	nsubj
3	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 week	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closes	obl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 month	det
8	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closes	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	present	the bank				month; week		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Monthly pay has to last the whole month, so money gets tight near the end

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Monthly	monthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pay	amod
2	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 last	mark
5	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 has	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 month	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 month	amod
8	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 last	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gets	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 gets	advmod
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gets	nsubj
12	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
13	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gets	xcomp
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Monthly pay						tree rules
2	last	to-infinitive	Monthly pay not said here				month		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	get	present	money				near the end	tight property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Pennies are worth more before payday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 worth	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 worth	cop
3	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 worth	obj
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 payday	case
6	payday	payday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worth	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pennies				before payday	worth 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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