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Test 9 · ★ · Finding a job and getting on

Your sister: "If you get turned down it means you're rubbish." Put her right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, you · What happens: turn down, mean, be, put · To what, where: you, rubbish, her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Your sister: "If you get turned down it means you're rubbish."

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 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
5	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 turned	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 turned	nsubj
7	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	aux:pass
8	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 means	csubj
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 turned	compound:prt
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 means	nsubj
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sister	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 rubbish	nsubj
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 rubbish	cop
14	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn down a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · passive		you					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	mean in a quote	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	you	rubbish					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: Put her right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		her = she			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She is right, only bad workers are ever turned down for jobs

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	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	_	10 turned	punct
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 workers	advmod
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 workers	amod
7	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turned	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	aux:pass
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 turned	advmod
10	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 right	parataxis
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 turned	compound:prt
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 jobs	case
13	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	turn down	present · passive		bad workers			ever	for jobs	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

It means the employer made a mistake on purpose

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 employer	det
4	employer	employer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mistake	det
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 purpose	case
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	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 clause=Topic
2	make	past	the employer	a mistake		purpose			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Often nothing was wrong, another person just fitted better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Often	often	ADV	_	4 wrong	advmod
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 wrong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fitted	punct
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fitted	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 fitted	advmod
9	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	advcl
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 fitted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	nothing					often, wrong property	tree rules
2	fit	past	another person					good property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It means you must never apply again

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 apply	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 apply	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 apply	advmod
6	apply	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 apply	advmod

#	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 clause=Topic
2	not apply	must	you				again		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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