Test 4 · ★★ · Saving for holidays and big things

What would happen if a family had no emergency fund when the boiler broke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, boiler · What happens: happen, have, break · To what, where: emergency fund

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 fund	det
9	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fund	compound
10	fund	fund	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 broke	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boiler	det
13	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broke	nsubj
14	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a family	no emergency fund	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fund=Patient
3	break	past	the boiler		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, because boilers never cost much money

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	_	6 cost	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 cost	mark
4	boilers	boiler	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cost	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 cost	advmod
6	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 money	amod
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cost	present	boilers	much money					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value

Option 2

The boiler would fix itself after a while

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	4 fix	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fix	aux
4	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 fix	obj
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 while	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 while	det
8	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fix	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	would	the boiler	boiler			while		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They might have to borrow and pay interest on top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 borrow	mark
5	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pay	cc
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 borrow	conj
8	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 top	case
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	might	They			tree rules
2	borrow	to-infinitive	They not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	pay	infinitive	They not said here	interest	top	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Asset

Option 4

The council would always buy them a new one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 council	det
2	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buy	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 buy	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 buy	advmod
5	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 buy	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	would	the council	them = they				always property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary one=Theme

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