Test 5 · Taxes and the government's budget

What would happen if a government spent £100 every year but collected only £90?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: government · What happens: happen, spend, collect

This is test 5 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

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 spent	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 government	det
6	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	nsubj
7	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	£	£	SYM	_	7 spent	obj
9	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 £	nummod
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	obj
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 collected	cc
13	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spent	conj
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 £	advmod
15	£	£	SYM	_	13 collected	obj
16	90	90	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 £	nummod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spend a condition, not said to happen	past	a government	year	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset
3	collect	past	a government not said here		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

It would borrow £10 a year, and its debt would grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 borrow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 borrow	aux
3	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	£	£	SYM	_	3 borrow	obj
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	nummod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 borrow	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grow	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grow	cc
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 debt	nmod:poss
11	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grow	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 grow	aux
13	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 borrow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	would	It				year		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme
2	grow	would	its debt						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Its debt would shrink by £10 a year until it was all gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 debt	nmod:poss
2	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shrink	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shrink	aux
4	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 £	case
6	£	£	SYM	_	4 shrink	obl
7	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 £	nummod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shrink	obl:unmarked
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 gone	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gone	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	cop
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 gone	advmod
14	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shrink	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	would	Its debt				year		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	debt					all, gone property	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing, spending more than you collect is completely free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 free	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spending	punct
3	spending	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Nothing	acl
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 spending	obj
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 collect	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 collect	nsubj
7	collect	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 more	advcl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 free	cop
9	completely	completely	ADV	_	10 free	advmod
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spend	gerund		more		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset
2	collect	present	you			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	Nothing		completely, free property	tree rules

Option 4

It would save £10 a year by putting it in a big piggy bank

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 save	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 save	aux
3	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	£	£	SYM	_	3 save	obj
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	nummod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 save	obl:unmarked
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 putting	mark
9	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 save	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 putting	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 bank	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bank	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bank	amod
14	piggy	piggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bank	compound
15	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 putting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	would	It				year		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme
2	put	gerund		it		a big piggy bank			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bank=Destination

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