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Test 4 · ★★ · The parents walk in: how good parents react

Mum on the phone to Auntie Sue: "No, I didn't go off at her, it wasn't her fault, the bloody autoplay did it." What happened?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, phone, bloody autoplay · What happens: not go off, not be, do, happen · To what, where: fault, phone

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 59 «The parents walk in: how good parents react» 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 on the phone to Auntie Sue: "No, I didn't go off at her, it wasn't her fault, the bloody autoplay did it."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 phone	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phone	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mum	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Auntie	case
6	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 phone	nmod
7	Sue	Sue	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Auntie	flat
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
10	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	15 go	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 No	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 go	advmod
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 go	compound:prt
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fault	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fault	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fault	cop
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 fault	advmod
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fault	nmod:poss
24	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 did	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 autoplay	det
27	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 autoplay	amod
28	autoplay	autoplay	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 did	nsubj
29	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fault	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 did	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go off in a quote	past · do-support	Mum on the phone to Auntie					at Auntie	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at she=Location
2	not is a in a quote	past	phone	Mum's fault					tree rules
3	do in a quote	past	the bloody autoplay	phone					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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: What happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Auntie Sue switched the autoplay on by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 switched	nsubj
2	Sue	Sue	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Auntie	flat
3	switched	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 autoplay	det
5	autoplay	autoplay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 switched	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	3 switched	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 mistake	case
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 switched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch on	past	Auntie	the autoplay				by mistake	vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent autoplay=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mum stayed calm and blamed the autoplay, not the child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stayed	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 blamed	cc
5	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 autoplay	det
7	autoplay	autoplay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blamed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 child	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 child	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Mum					calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blame	past	Mum not said here	the autoplay					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent autoplay=Theme

Option 3

Mum is cross with Auntie Sue for not helping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cross	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	cop
3	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 Sue	case
5	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sue	compound
6	Sue	Sue	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cross	obl
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 helping	mark
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 helping	advmod
9	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cross	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mum					with Auntie Sue; cross property	tree rules
2	not help	gerund	Mum not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Mum shouted at the child about the autoplay until she cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 child	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouted	obl
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 autoplay	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 autoplay	det
8	autoplay	autoplay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 child	nmod
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 cried	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shouted	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	Mum					at the child about the autoplay	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	Mum						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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