Test 14 · ★ · Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things

Why did hiding the crack in the borrowed tablet end the friendship?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: hide, borrow · To what, where: crack, borrowed tablet end

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 225 «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 hiding	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hiding	aux
3	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crack	det
5	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
8	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 end	amod
9	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	compound
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 friendship	det
12	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hiding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · do-support		the crack			in the borrowed tablet end		tree rules
2	borrow	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

His friend stopped trusting him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	trusting	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stopped	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trusting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	His friend						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	trust	gerund	His friend not said here	friend					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Tablets can never be fixed once they crack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fixed	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fixed	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 fixed	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fixed	aux:pass
5	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	once	once	SCONJ	_	8 crack	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 crack	nsubj
8	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fixed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fix	can · passive		Tablets					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
2	crack	present	Tablets = tablet						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Friends never lend things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lend	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 lend	advmod
3	lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lend	present	Friends	things					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 4

The crack was too big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crack	det
2	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 big	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 big	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the crack					big property	tree rules

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