Test 10 · ★ · Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry

said sorry if ur upset, that's an apology innit

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: apology innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 126 «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» 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	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 said	xcomp
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 upset	mark
4	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 upset	nmod:poss
5	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 innit	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 innit	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 innit	det
10	apology	apology	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 innit	compound
11	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 said	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	past						sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	that	a apology innit					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

Yes, that's the best kind, because it shows you care about their feelings

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 kind	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kind	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 kind	amod
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shows	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 shows	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shows	nsubj
11	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	acl:relcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 care	nsubj
13	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shows	ccomp
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 feelings	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 feelings	nmod:poss
16	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 care	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the best kind		tree rules
2	show	present	it	the best kind not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent kind=Recipient clause=Topic
3	care	present	you		about their feelings	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about feeling=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, a real apology says sorry for what you did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 apology	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 apology	amod
5	apology	apology	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 says	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sorry	obl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	present	a real apology					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Only if you say it twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 say	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obj
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	you	it				twice property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Yes, any sorry counts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 counts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 counts	det
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 counts	amod
5	counts	count	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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