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title: Mum, checking the bank app: "No takeaways for a bit, love, I'm on ma… — A new baby in the house · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum, checking the bank app: "No takeaways for a bit, love, I'm on maternity pay now." Why? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 19 «A new baby in the house» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 8 · ★ · A new baby in the house

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Mum, checking the bank app: "No takeaways for a bit, love, I'm on maternity pay now." Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mum, I · **What happens:** check, be · **To what, where:** bank app, maternity pay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 19 «A new baby in the house» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum, checking the bank app: "No takeaways for a bit, love, I'm on maternity pay now."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:19-a-new-baby-in-the-house:t8:1
# text = Mum, checking the bank app: "No takeaways for a bit, love, I'm on maternity pay now."
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	takeaways	takeaway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	maternity	maternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	_	3	parataxis	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | gerund | Mum | the bank app |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  | maternity pay | now |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:19-a-new-baby-in-the-house:t8:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Takeaways are bad for the new baby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:19-a-new-baby-in-the-house:t8:o1:1
# text = Takeaways are bad for the new baby
1	Takeaways	takeaway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Takeaways |  |  |  |  | for the new baby; bad *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pay is often lower during maternity leave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:19-a-new-baby-in-the-house:t8:o2:1
# text = Pay is often lower during maternity leave
1	Pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	during	during	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	maternity	maternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Pay |  |  |  | during maternity leave | low, often *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mum has been sacked from her job

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:19-a-new-baby-in-the-house:t8:o3:1
# text = Mum has been sacked from her job
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sacked	sack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sack** | present · perfect · passive |  | Mum |  | her job |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from job=Source |
| 2 | **job** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The baby has spent all the money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:19-a-new-baby-in-the-house:t8:o4:1
# text = The baby has spent all the money
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | present · perfect · passive |  | the baby |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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**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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