Test 7 · ★ · Finding a job and getting on

Mum: "Promoted, yeah, but now I'm managing Sue, and we were mates." Why is that hard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, I, we · What happens: promote, manage, be · To what, where: Sue, mates

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 3 «Finding a job and getting on» 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: Mum: "Promoted, yeah, but now I'm managing Sue, and we were mates."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Promoted	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Promoted	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Promoted	punct
4	Promoted	promote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Promoted	punct
6	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 Promoted	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 managing	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 managing	cc
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 managing	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 managing	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 managing	aux
12	managing	manage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 Promoted	conj
13	Sue	Sue	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 managing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mates	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mates	cc
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 mates	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 mates	cop
18	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Promoted	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 mates	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 mates	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	promote in a quote	participle	Mum			vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	manage in a quote	present · progressive	I	Sue	now	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sue=Theme
3	is a in a quote	past	we	mates		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: Why is that hard?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hard	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 hard	mark
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sue has been sacked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sue	Sue	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sacked	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sacked	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sacked	aux:pass
4	sacked	sack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sack	present · perfect · passive		Sue					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She is now in charge of someone who used to be her equal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 charge	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 charge	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 charge	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 charge	case
5	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 someone	case
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 charge	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 used	nsubj
9	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 someone	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	13 equal	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 equal	cop
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 equal	nmod:poss
13	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 used	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She	charge	now	of someone	tree rules
2	use	past					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive				equal property	tree rules

Option 3

She has been moved to a smaller job with a lot less pay than before

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moved	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 moved	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 moved	aux:pass
4	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 job	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 job	det
7	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 job	amod
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moved	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 lot	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lot	det
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 job	nmod
12	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 pay	amod
13	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lot	appos
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 before	case
15	before	before	ADV	_	4 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present · perfect · passive		She		a smaller job with a lot			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to job=Trajectory

Option 4

Sue was promoted above her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sue	Sue	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promoted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promoted	aux:pass
3	promoted	promote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	above	above	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 promoted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promote	past · passive		Sue				above her = she	vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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