Test 2 · A bank account and a debit card
Leo's mate laughs, "Card declined, embarrassing, mate!" What actually happened?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, Card · What happens: laugh, decline, happen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 of lesson 26 «A bank account and a debit card» 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: Leo's mate laughs, "Card declined, embarrassing, mate!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Leo | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughs | nsubj |
| 4 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 declined | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 declined | punct |
| 7 | Card | Card | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 declined | nsubj |
| 8 | declined | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughs | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 embarrassing | punct |
| 10 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 declined | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mate | punct |
| 12 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 embarrassing | vocative |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 embarrassing | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 declined | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Leo's mate | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | decline in a quote | past | Card | embarrassing property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 actually happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | actually property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
There wasn't enough money in Leo's account for that payment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 money | amod |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 account | case |
| 7 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 account | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Leo | case |
| 9 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 money | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 payment | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 payment | det |
| 12 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | past | enough money in Leo's account | there | for that payment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | account | Leo | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
The card is broken and must be thrown away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 card | det |
| 2 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | aux:pass |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thrown | cc |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 thrown | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thrown | aux:pass |
| 8 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 broken | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 thrown | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · passive | the card | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | throw away | must · passive | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
Option 3
The bank has closed Leo's account for ever
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 | 4 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 closed | aux |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 account | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Leo | case |
| 7 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closed | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 ever | case |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 closed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present · perfect · passive | the bank | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | account | Leo | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
The shop doesn't like Leo, so it refused him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shop | det |
| 2 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 refused | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 refused | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 refused | nsubj |
| 10 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 refused | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | present · do-support | the shop | Leo | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot leo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past | shop | Leo | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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