Test 9 · ★★ · When work goes wrong
Mum is burnt out. Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: burnt out, be · To what, where: Mum
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Mum is burnt out.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burnt | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 burnt | aux:pass |
| 3 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 burnt | compound:prt |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burnt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt out | present · passive | 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: Which is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is not your fault, but small kindnesses and rest help
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 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fault | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 help | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 help | cc |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kindnesses | amod |
| 9 | kindnesses | kindness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 help | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rest | cc |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kindnesses | conj |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fault | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | It | your fault | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | small kindnesses and rest | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
It means she is about to be sacked
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 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 about | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 about | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sacked | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sacked | aux:pass |
| 8 | sacked | sack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 about | xcomp |
| # | 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 | |||||
| 2 | is | present | she | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sack | to-infinitive · passive | she not said here | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP» |
Option 3
You must fix it by doing all her work for her every single day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fix | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fix | aux |
| 3 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fix | obj |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 doing | mark |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fix | advcl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 work | det:predet |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 work | nmod:poss |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doing | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 doing | obl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doing | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | must | You | it | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | You not said here | her work | day | for her = she | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | work | her = she | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
It will pass if everyone ignores it
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 pass | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 pass | aux |
| 3 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 ignores | mark |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 ignores | nsubj |
| 6 | ignores | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pass | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ignores | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | future | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ignore a condition, not said to happen | present | everyone | it | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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