Test 17 · ★ · Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things

apparently that boy borrowed a girl's calculator, broke it and hid it, and now she won't speak to him ever. what's the true lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, girl · What happens: borrow, break, hide, not speak, be · To what, where: calculator, boy, true lesson · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	4 borrowed	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 borrowed	nsubj
4	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 lesson	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 calculator	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 girl	case
8	calculator	calculator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 borrowed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 broke	punct
10	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 borrowed	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 broke	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hid	cc
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 broke	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hid	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 speak	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 speak	cc
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 speak	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 speak	nsubj
19	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 speak	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 speak	advmod
21	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 borrowed	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 speak	obl
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 speak	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 borrowed	punct
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 lesson	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 lesson	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lesson	det
29	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lesson	amod
30	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 lesson	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	past	that boy	a girl's calculator			apparently property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calculator=Theme
2	break	past		calculator				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
3	hide	past		calculator				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	not speak speech: other	future	girl		boy	now; ever		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
5	is a	present		the true lesson				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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell the owner, say sorry and offer to replace it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owner	det
3	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 offer	cc
8	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 replace	mark
10	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 offer	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 replace	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the owner		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here		sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	offer	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
4	replace not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	owner		vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 2

Never borrow anything at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 borrow	advmod
2	borrow	borrow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 borrow	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 borrow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not borrow	imperative	you not said here	anything		all			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 3

Hide it and buy a new one secretly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 buy	cc
4	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buy	obj
8	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	4 buy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	buy	infinitive	you not said here	a new one				secretly property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 4

Say it was broken when you got it

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	4 broken	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux:pass
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Say	ccomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 got	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	break	past · passive		it	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	get	past	you	it	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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