Test 2 · ★★ · When work goes wrong

Your sister says: "Mum got made redundant, so she must have messed up." Put her right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, Mum, you · What happens: say, make, mess up, put · To what, where: Mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 4 «When work goes wrong» 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 says: "Mum got made redundant, so she must have messed up."

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	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
6	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
9	redundant	redundant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 made	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 messed	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 messed	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 messed	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 messed	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 messed	aux
15	messed	mess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 made	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 messed	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your sister			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	past · passive		Mum	redundant property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	mess up in a quote	must · perfect	Mum			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		Mum			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It means Mum will get exactly the same job back again tomorrow morning

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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 job	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 job	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 job	amod
9	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	11 again	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
12	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 morning	compound
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl:unmarked

#	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	get	future	Mum	the same job			again; morning		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Redundancy means the job was cut, not that she did anything wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Redundancy	redundancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	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 job	det
4	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	aux:pass
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 did	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 did	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 did	obj
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 anything	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	Redundancy		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cut	past · passive		the job	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	not do	past	Redundancy	anything	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

Option 3

It means Mum quit because she was bored

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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quit	nsubj
4	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 bored	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bored	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bored	cop
8	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	quit	past	Mum		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Mum	bored property	tree rules

Option 4

She is right, redundancy is for bad workers

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	_	9 workers	punct
5	redundancy	redundancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 workers	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 workers	cop
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 workers	case
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 workers	amod
9	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	redundancy					for bad workers	tree rules

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