Test 10 · ★ · Growing up, honesty and manners

i broke the tv remote n mum asked, said it was jake

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i, mum, remote · What happens: break, ask, say, be · To what, where: tv remote, jake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 104 «Growing up, honesty and manners» 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	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 remote	det
4	tv	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remote	compound
5	remote	remote	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj
6	n	n	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remote	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 broke	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 jake	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 jake	cop
13	jake	jake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	break	past	i	the tv remote	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer remote=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	n's mum	the tv remote not said here	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent remote=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	remote	jake	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Keep blaming Jake, it worked last time so it'll work now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	blaming	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 blaming	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 worked	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 worked	nsubj
6	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	parataxis
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worked	obl:unmarked
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 work	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 work	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 work	aux
12	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	advcl
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	blame	gerund	you not said here	Jake		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jake=Theme
3	work	past	it		time	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	work	future	it		now	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Say the dog did it instead

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 did	nsubj
4	did	do	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 did	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 did	advmod

#	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	do	past	the dog	it				instead property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

Say it was already broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 broken	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux:pass
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 broken	advmod
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Say	ccomp

#	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	break	past · passive		it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell the truth, lies make trust hard to rebuild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 truth	det
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
5	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl
7	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 rebuild	mark
10	rebuild	rebuild	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the truth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
2	make	present	lies	trust	hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trust=Product
3	rebuild	to-infinitive	trust not said here			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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