Test 11 · ★ · Promises

borrowed jo's book, i got jam on it, oops

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: book · What happens: borrow, get · To what, where: jam

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 199 «Promises» 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	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 jo	amod
2	jo	jo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 book	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 jo	case
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 book	punct
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 oops	punct
12	oops	oop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	borrowed jo's book	jam		jam		oops obl	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent jam=Theme on it=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

Own up and offer to fix or replace it

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 offer	cc
4	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Own	conj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fix	mark
6	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 offer	xcomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 replace	cc
8	replace	replace	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Own	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 replace	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	own up	imperative	you not said here		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	offer	infinitive	you not said here		tree rules
3	fix not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	replace	infinitive	you not said here	it	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 2

Keep it so she forgets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 forgets	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgets	nsubj
5	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	forget	present	she						tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Give it back and say nothing, she may not even see the jam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 say	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 see	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 jam	det
14	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give back	imperative	you not said here	it	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	not see	may	she	the jam	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jam=Stimulus

Option 4

Say it was like that already

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 that	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 that	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Say	obj
6	already	already	ADV	_	1 Say	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
2	is	past	it					like that	tree rules

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