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Test 5 · ★ · Sore backs, glasses and feeling low

Your friend says, "My mum's depressed, it's my fault 'cause I'm always messing about." What is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, mum · What happens: say, be, mess about · To what, where: fault · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 22 «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Your friend says, "My mum's depressed, it's my fault 'cause I'm always messing about."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 depressed	punct
6	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 depressed	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 depressed	cop
9	depressed	depressed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fault	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fault	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fault	cop
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fault	nmod:poss
14	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 depressed	parataxis
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 fault	punct
16	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	20 messing	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 messing	nsubj
18	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 messing	aux
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 messing	advmod
20	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fault	advcl
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 messing	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 depressed	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 depressed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	My mum					depressed property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	friend	my fault					tree rules
4	mess about in a quote	present · progressive	Your friend = friend					about, always property	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: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It will go away if he behaves for one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 behaves	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 behaves	nsubj
7	behaves	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 go	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	nummod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 behaves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	future	It					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	behave a condition, not said to happen	present	he				day		vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He is right, children cause depression by being naughty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cause	punct
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cause	nsubj
6	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	depression	depression	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cause	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 naughty	case
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 naughty	cop
10	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cause	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	cause	present	children	depression					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition depression=Patient
3	is	gerund						naughty property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is not his fault, depression is an illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fault	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fault	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fault	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fault	nmod:poss
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 illness	punct
7	depression	depression	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 illness	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 illness	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 illness	det
10	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fault	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	his fault					tree rules
2	is a	present	depression	a illness					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He should stop talking to his mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mum	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	should	He						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	talk	gerund	He not said here					to his mum	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mum=Co-Agent

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