Test 5 · The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss

Leo's mate says, "His mum's salon lost money, so she's rubbish at business." What's the fairer view?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, salon, fairer view · What happens: say, lose, be · To what, where: money, rubbish, business · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 32 «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» 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 says, "His mum's salon lost money, so she's rubbish at business."

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 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
7	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 salon	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 mum	case
10	salon	salon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	nsubj
11	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rubbish	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 rubbish	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rubbish	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 rubbish	cop
17	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 business	case
19	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rubbish	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Leo's mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose in a quote	past	mate's mum's salon	money		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality
3	is a in a quote	present	salon	rubbish	business	tree rules

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's the fairer view?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 view	det
4	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 view	amod
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fairer view						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Many new businesses lose money at first; hers made a profit in year two

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 businesses	amod
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 businesses	amod
3	businesses	business	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	nsubj
4	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 lose	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 profit	det
12	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 year	case
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 year	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Many new businesses	money					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality
2	make	past	hers = she	a profit			year		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profit=Product

Option 2

She should have charged nothing to get customers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 charged	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 charged	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 charged	aux
4	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 charged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	acl
8	customers	customer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	should · perfect · passive		She					vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient nothing=Asset
2	get	to-infinitive		customers					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer customer=Stimulus

Option 3

Salons can never make a profit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salons	salon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 profit	det
6	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	can	Salons	a profit					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset profit=Product

Option 4

He's right, a first-year loss means the business has failed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 loss	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 year	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 first	punct
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loss	compound
9	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	nsubj
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 business	det
12	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 failed	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 failed	aux
14	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	He	right property	tree rules
2	mean	present	a year loss		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fail	present · perfect	the business		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: 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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