--- title: «if ur parents don't buy u everything they're poor or mean». Right? — Comfortable families: enough, but not… · tree and pragmatics description: «if ur parents don't buy u everything they're poor or mean». Right? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 490 «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Comfortable families: enough, but not…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Comfortable families: enough, but not everything «if ur parents don't buy u everything they're poor or mean». Right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** not buy u, be · **To what, where:** everything This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 490 «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» of the everyday 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/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* «if ur parents don't buy u everything they're poor or mean». ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t1:1 # text = «if ur parents don't buy u everything they're poor or mean». 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 3 ur your PRON PRP$ Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 u u ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 obj _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **buy u** *in a quote* | present · do-support | ur's parents | everything | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | parents *= parent* | | | | | poor *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | | parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:* Right? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t1:2 # text = Right? 1 Right right INTJ UH _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Yes, saying no means they're mean ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t1:o1:1 # text = Yes, saying no means they're mean 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 3 obj _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | no | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | saying | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | they | | | | | mean *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} No, comfortable families can't buy everything ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t1:o2:1 # text = No, comfortable families can't buy everything 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **buy** | can | comfortable families | everything | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yes, rich parents always buy everything ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t1:o3:1 # text = Yes, rich parents always buy everything 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 6 buy buy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | present | rich parents | everything | | | | always *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} No, it means they're secretly rich ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t1:o4:1 # text = No, it means they're secretly rich 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | they | | | | | rich, secretly *property* | 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. 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