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Test 1 · ★ · Classroom rules and homework

A boy in Sydney borrowed his friend's pencil last week and still has it. What should he have done?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: borrow, have, do · To what, where: pencil

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 254 «Classroom rules and homework» 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Sydney borrowed his friend's pencil last week and still has it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 borrowed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Sydney	case
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pencil	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 friend	case
9	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 borrowed	obj
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 week	amod
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 borrowed	obl:unmarked
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 has	cc
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 has	advmod
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 borrowed	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 has	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 borrowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	past	a boy in Sydney	boy's friend's pencil			week		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme
2	have	present	a boy in Sydney not said here	pencil			still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: What should he have done?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 done	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should · perfect	boy						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Lent it to someone else in the class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lent	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 someone	case
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Lent	obl
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 someone	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 class	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 class	det
8	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	past		it	someone	the class			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to someone=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Given it back when he finished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 finished	advcl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Given	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Given	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 finished	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 finished	nsubj
6	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	participle	he not said here	it					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	finish	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Kept it, since it is only a pencil and pencils are cheap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kept	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pencil	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 pencil	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pencil	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pencil	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 pencil	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pencil	det
9	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kept	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pencils	cc
11	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pencil	conj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cheap	cop
13	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Kept	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past		it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a pencil and pencils					tree rules
3	is	present						cheap property	tree rules

Option 4

Swapped it for a worse one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Swapped	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 one	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past		it				for a worse one	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for one=Co-Theme

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