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Test 7 · ★★ · When work goes wrong

Dad: "On my own the boss wouldn't listen. With the union behind me, he had to." Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boss · What happens: not listen, have

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Dad: "On my own the boss wouldn't listen.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 own	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 own	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 own	punct
4	On	on	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boss	det
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 listen	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 listen	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 listen	advmod
11	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 own	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 own	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not listen in a quote	would	the boss						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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: With the union behind me, he had to."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 union	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 union	det
3	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 union	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 union	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	8 had	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	boss					with the union behind me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The union paid the boss to listen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 union	det
2	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	nsubj
3	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boss	det
5	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 listen	mark
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 boss	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the union	the boss					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boss=Asset
2	listen	to-infinitive	the union not said here	the boss not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The union sacked the boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 union	det
2	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sacked	nsubj
3	sacked	sack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boss	det
5	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sacked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sack	past	the union	the boss					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boss=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many workers together are harder to ignore than one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 workers	amod
2	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harder	nsubj
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 workers	advmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 harder	cop
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ignore	mark
7	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 harder	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 one	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ignore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Many workers					hard property	tree rules
2	ignore	to-infinitive	Many workers not said here					than one	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The boss is a member of the union too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boss	det
2	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 member	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 member	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 member	det
5	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 union	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 union	det
8	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 member	nmod
9	too	too	ADV	_	5 member	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the boss	a member				of the union	tree rules

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