Test 13 · ★ · Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry

knocked over my mate's lego on purpose, sorry is cringe

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: knock over, be · To what, where: lego, purpose, knocked cringe

This is test 13 · ★ 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	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cringe	amod
2	over	over	ADP	_	1 knocked	compound:prt
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mate	nmod:poss
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lego	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mate	case
6	lego	lego	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 knocked	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 purpose	case
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 knocked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 knocked	punct
10	sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	1 knocked	discourse
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cringe	cop
12	cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock over	participle		my mate's lego		purpose			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent lego=Theme on purpose=Destination
2	is a	present		knocked cringe					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

Blame his brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	his brother					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme

Option 2

Knock down some of his other things too so that it's fair on both sides

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Knock	compound:prt
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	1 Knock	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 things	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 things	nmod:poss
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 some	nmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	1 Knock	advmod
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 fair	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fair	expl
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fair	cop
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Knock	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 sides	case
15	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	16 sides	det
16	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fair	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	imperative	you not said here	some					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent some=Patient
2	is	present	you not said here			both sides		fair property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Never say sorry, it's weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 say	advmod
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 weak	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 weak	cop
7	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					weak property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Say sorry and help fix it, or he may stop playing with you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 help	cc
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fix	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 stop	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stop	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	aux
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	conj
12	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stop	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here		sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	help	infinitive	you not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	fix	infinitive	you not said here	it		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	stop	may	he			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	play	gerund	he not said here		with you	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent

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