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Test 11 · ★★ · Saving for holidays and big things

Mum's goals: holiday £600, boiler £1,500, Christmas £400. The boiler breaks first. Why might she save for it before the holiday?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boiler · What happens: break, save

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Saving for holidays and big things» 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: Mum's goals: holiday £600, boiler £1,500, Christmas £400.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goals	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mum	case
3	goals	goal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 holiday	punct
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goals	conj
6	£	£	SYM	_	5 holiday	nmod
7	600	600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 £	nummod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 boiler	punct
9	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holiday	conj
10	£	£	SYM	_	9 boiler	nmod
11	1,500	1,500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 £	nummod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Christmas	punct
13	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 holiday	nmod
14	£	£	SYM	_	13 Christmas	flat
15	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 £	nummod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goals	punct

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

Sentence 2: The boiler breaks first.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boiler	det
2	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breaks	nsubj
3	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 breaks	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 breaks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	the boiler					first property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Sentence 3: Why might she save for it before the holiday?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 save	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 save	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 save	nsubj
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 save	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 holiday	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 holiday	det
9	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	might	boiler				before the holiday	for it	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for it=Source

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Holidays are not allowed until every boiler is brand new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 new	mark
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 boiler	det
7	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 new	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 new	cop
9	brand	brand	ADV	_	10 new	advmod
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 allowed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Holidays					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
2	is	present	every boiler					brand, new property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A home needs a working boiler; a holiday can wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 home	det
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boiler	det
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 boiler	amod
6	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 wait	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 holiday	det
9	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wait	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wait	aux
11	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needs	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	a home	a working boiler					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boiler=Theme
2	work	gerund							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	can	a holiday						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Boilers are cheaper than holidays, so they come first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boilers	boiler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cheaper	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cheaper	cop
3	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 holidays	case
5	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cheaper	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cheaper	conj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Boilers					than holidays; cheap property	tree rules
2	come	present	Boilers = boiler					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The holiday pot always pays for the boiler automatically

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pot	det
2	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pot	compound
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pays	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 pays	advmod
5	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 boiler	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boiler	det
8	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pays	obl
9	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	5 pays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	the holiday pot					for the boiler; always, automatically property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for boiler=Theme

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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