Test 11 · ★★ · Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more

What would happen to a family with a big mortgage if interest rates fell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: interest rates · What happens: happen, fall

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» of the politics 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	to	to	ADP	_	6 family	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 mortgage	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mortgage	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mortgage	amod
10	mortgage	mortgage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 fell	mark
12	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rates	compound
13	rates	rate	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a family; with a big mortgage	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall a condition, not said to happen	past	interest rates						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: 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

Their whole mortgage would simply disappear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mortgage	nmod:poss
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mortgage	amod
3	mortgage	mortgage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disappear	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 disappear	aux
5	simply	simply	ADV	_	6 disappear	advmod
6	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	would	Their whole mortgage					simply property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mortgage		Their = they						nom mortgage «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their monthly house payment would usually go down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 payment	nmod:poss
2	monthly	monthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 payment	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 payment	compound
4	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	would	Their monthly house payment					down, usually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	pay		Their = they						nom payment «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Their monthly house payment would usually go up a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 payment	nmod:poss
2	monthly	monthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 payment	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 payment	compound
4	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 go	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lot	det
10	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	would	Their monthly house payment	a lot				usually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	pay		Their = they						nom payment «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Their house would get bigger by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 house	nmod:poss
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Their house					by house; big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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