Test 15 · ★ · Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry
said sorry but kept doing the same thing again
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: say, keep, do · To what, where: same thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 15 · ★ 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 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 kept | cc |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 said | conj |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doing | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 doing | advmod |
| # | 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 | keep | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do | gerund | the same thing | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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.
The options
Option 1
Sorry fixes everything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fixes | amod |
| 2 | fixes | fix | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 fixes | obj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Say it louder next time
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=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Say | obj |
| 3 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 time | amod |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | it | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A real sorry means stopping and putting it right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sorry | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sorry | amod |
| 3 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | stopping | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 putting | cc |
| 7 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 stopping | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 putting | obj |
| 9 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 putting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a real sorry | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stop not said to happen | gerund | a real sorry not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | put | gerund | a real sorry not said here | sorry | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
Option 4
Saying it is enough every time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 enough | csubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Saying | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 enough | cop |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enough | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | it | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Saying | time | enough property | tree rules |
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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