Test 4 · Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax
A dad from Glasgow says, "The leccy's gone up again, it's pure dreich oot, and we cannae have the heating on aw day." ("Leccy" is electricity; "dreich" means grey and wet.) What is he worried about?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad, leccy, we, dreich · What happens: say, go up, be, have, mean · To what, where: pure dreich oot, heating, Leccy electricity, grey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 of lesson 21 «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» 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: A dad from Glasgow says, "The leccy's gone up again, it's pure dreich oot, and we cannae have the heating on aw day."
vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heating=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: ("Leccy" is electricity; "dreich" means grey and wet.)
The landlord putting up the rent because of all the rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
The
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
2 landlord
det
2
landlord
landlord
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
3
putting
put
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
2 landlord
acl
4
up
up
ADP
_
3 putting
compound:prt
5
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
6 rent
det
6
rent
rent
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 putting
obj
7
because
because
ADP
ExtPos=ADP
11 rain
case
8
of
of
ADP
_
7 because
fixed
9
all
all
DET
PronType=Tot
11 rain
det:predet
10
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
11 rain
det
11
rain
rain
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 putting
obl
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
put up
gerund
the landlord not said here
the rent
because all rain
vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rent=Goal
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.