Test 9 · ★ · People and society — communities, work, money and rules

why do we pay tax anyway

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: pay · To what, where: tax

This is test 9 · ★ 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	4 pay	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 pay	nsubj
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obj
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 pay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · do-support	we	tax				anyway property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset

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 the shops 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shops	det
4	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	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		the shops				rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shop=Product

Option 2

Only to punish people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 punish	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 punish	mark
3	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 punish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	to-infinitive		people					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 3

So people cannot buy toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 buy	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 buy	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 buy	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 buy	advmod
5	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not buy	can	people	toys					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To pay for things everyone shares, like roads and schools

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	_	4 things	case
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pay	obl
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 shares	nsubj
6	shares	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 things	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 roads	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 roads	case
9	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pay	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 schools	cc
11	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 roads	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	to-infinitive						for things; like roads and schools	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme
2	share	present	everyone	things not said here					tree rules

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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