Test 6 · ★ · People and society — communities, work, money and rules

Why does a country collect taxes from people who earn money?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: do, earn · To what, where: collect taxes, money

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 58 «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» of the world 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	conj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 taxes	det
4	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 collect	compound
5	collect	collect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taxes	compound
6	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 does	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taxes	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 earn	nsubj
10	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 people	acl:relcl
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 earn	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a collect taxes				from people	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Eventuality
2	earn	present	people	money					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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

To make everyone in the country poorer on purpose

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	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 make	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 country	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl
7	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 purpose	case
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poorer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		everyone		the country		poor property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everyone=Product

Option 2

To buy sweets for schools only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 buy	mark
2	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 buy	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 schools	case
5	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 buy	obl
6	only	only	ADV	_	2 buy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	to-infinitive		sweets				for schools	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme for school=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To pay for shared things like hospitals and roads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pay	mark
2	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 things	case
4	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pay	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 hospitals	case
7	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 things	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 roads	cc
9	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hospitals	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	to-infinitive						for shared things like hospitals and roads	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme
2	share	participle							tree rules

Option 4

To stop people from working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 working	mark
5	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		people					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality people=Eventuality
2	work	gerund							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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