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Test 3 · ★★ · Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more

"The bank put rates up again, mortgage is gonna kill us" groans Noah's dad. Why would a bank do that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bank, mortgage · What happens: put up, be, groan, do · To what, where: rates, dad, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: "The bank put rates up again, mortgage is gonna kill us" groans Noah's dad.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bank	det
3	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 groans	csubj
5	rates	rate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 put	compound:prt
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct
9	mortgage	mortgage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kill	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 kill	cop
11	gonna	gonna	PART	_	12 kill	mark
12	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	parataxis
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 kill	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct
15	groans	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 dad	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Noah	case
18	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 groans	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 groans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put up in a quote	infinitive	the bank	rates			again		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rate=Goal
2	is in a quote	present	mortgage					kill property	tree rules
3	groan	present		Noah's dad					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dad=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.

Sentence 2: Why would a bank do that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 do	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bank	det
4	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 do	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	a bank	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

The options

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

To slow inflation by making borrowing dearer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 slow	mark
2	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inflation	inflation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slow	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 making	mark
5	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 slow	advcl
6	borrowing	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 making	xcomp
7	dearer	dear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 making	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow	to-infinitive		inflation					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent inflation=Patient
2	make	gerund						dear property	tree rules
3	borrow	gerund							vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To make prices in the shops rise even faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 rise	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shops	det
6	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rise	nsubj
7	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	advcl
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 faster	advmod
9	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 rise	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		prices					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset price=Product
2	rise	present	the shops					fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To punish families who own houses with loans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 punish	mark
2	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 punish	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 own	nsubj
5	own	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 families	acl:relcl
6	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 own	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 loans	case
8	loans	loan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 punish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	to-infinitive		families				with loans	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent family=Patient with loan=Theme
2	own	present	families	houses					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme

Option 4

To make savers poorer and borrowers richer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	savers	saver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 savers	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 borrowers	cc
6	borrowers	borrower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 savers	conj
7	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		savers and borrowers				rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset saver=Product

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