Test 10 · ★ · Responsibility, independence and curiosity

left my homework at home, gonna say the dog ate it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: leave, say, eat · To what, where: homework, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 101 «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 homework	nmod:poss
3	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 left	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 left	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
7	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 say	dep
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 left	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	nsubj
11	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	leave	past		my homework	home	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent homework=Theme at home=Location
2	say speech: assert	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat	past	the dog	homework		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Say the dog ate it, teachers always believe that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 believe	punct
7	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 believe	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 believe	advmod
9	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 believe	mark

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	past	the dog	it		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	believe	present	teachers		always property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Say the teacher never set it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 set	advmod
5	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 set	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not set	past	the teacher	it					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

Option 3

Copy someone's at break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Copy	obj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 someone	case
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 break	case
5	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here	someone		break			vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent someone=Theme at break=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Own up and bring it the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Own	own	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Own	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bring	cc
4	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Own	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bring	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own up	imperative	you not said here						vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	bring	infinitive	you not said here	it			day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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