Test 6 · Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax
In a cartoon, a family burns banknotes in the fire and says, "Heating's free anyway!" What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: burn, say, be · To what, where: banknotes, cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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: In a cartoon, a family burns banknotes in the fire and says, "Heating's free anyway!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burns | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burns | nsubj |
| 7 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | banknotes | banknote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 burns | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 fire | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burns | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 says | cc |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 burns | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 free | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 free | punct |
| 16 | Heating | heating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 free | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Heating | case |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 burns | parataxis |
| 19 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 18 free | advmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 free | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 burns | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present | a family | banknotes | a cartoon | in the fire | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a family not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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: What is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, because heating really is free in winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 free | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 free | mark |
| 4 | heating | heating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 free | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 free | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 free | cop |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | amod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 winter | case |
| 9 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 free | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | heating | winter | free property | tree rules |
Option 2
Heating is only paid for during the summer months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heating | heating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 paid | aux:pass |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 paid | advmod |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 paid | obl |
| 6 | during | during | ADP | _ | 9 months | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 months | det |
| 8 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 months | compound |
| 9 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 paid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present · passive | Heating | month | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Heating is paid for out of the council tax instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heating | heating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 paid | aux:pass |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 tax | case |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 tax | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tax | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tax | det |
| 8 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tax | compound |
| 9 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obl |
| 10 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 9 tax | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present · passive | Heating | for the council tax | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for tax=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Heating costs money, paid on the energy bill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heating | heating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 costs | nsubj |
| 2 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 costs | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 paid | punct |
| 5 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 costs | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bill | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bill | det |
| 8 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bill | compound |
| 9 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | present | Heating | money | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value | ||||
| 2 | pay | participle | Heating not said here | the energy bill | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
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