Test 1 · Taxes and the government's budget

Your mate goes, "School's free, nobody pays for it, innit." What's the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, nobody, truth · What happens: go, pay, innit, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 36 «Taxes and the government's budget» 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: Your mate goes, "School's free, nobody pays for it, innit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 free	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 free	punct
6	School	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 free	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 School	case
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pays	punct
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 pays	nsubj
11	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 free	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pays	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pays	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay in a quote	present	nobody	for mate	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
3	innit in a quote	infinitive	nobody not said here		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 truth?

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	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

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

Everyone pays through taxes, about £7,000 a pupil a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 pays	nsubj
2	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 taxes	case
4	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pays	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 £	punct
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 £	advmod
7	£	£	SYM	_	2 pays	obj
8	7,000	7000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 £	nummod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pupil	det
10	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pays	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pays	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	Everyone	a pupil		taxes	year		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent £=Recipient pupil=Asset

Option 2

Schools are paid for by the teachers out of their own wages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paid	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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	_	3 paid	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 teachers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teachers	det
7	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paid	obl
8	out	out	ADP	_	12 wages	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 wages	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wages	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wages	amod
12	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay for	present · passive	the teachers	Schools		Schools's own wages			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset

Option 3

Only parents with children at school pay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 parents	advmod
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 children	case
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 parents	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 pay	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	compound
7	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 children	nmod

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

Option 4

He's right, schools cost nothing to run

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	_	6 cost	punct
5	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cost	nsubj
6	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 cost	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 run	mark
9	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		right property	tree rules
2	cost	present	schools	nothing		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme nothing=Value
3	run	to-infinitive	schools not said here	nothing not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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