Test 10 · ★ · Classroom rules and homework

got told off for talking but it wasn't me! gonna shout

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: tell off, talk, not be, shout · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	aux:pass
2	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 told	compound:prt
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 talking	mark
5	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	advcl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 me	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 me	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 me	cop
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 me	advmod
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 talking	conj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
12	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	13 shout	dep
13	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past · passive			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic
2	talk	gerund			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	past	it	me	tree rules
4	shout speech: express	infinitive			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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

Stay calm and explain politely later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 explain	cc
4	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
5	politely	politely	ADV	_	4 explain	advmod
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 explain	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	explain speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here					late, politely property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Shout out loud that it wasn't you, right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Shout	advmod
3	loud	loud	ADV	_	1 Shout	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 you	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 you	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 you	cop
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 you	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Shout	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 you	punct
10	right	right	ADV	_	11 now	advmod
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Shout	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout out speech: express	imperative	you not said here				now	loud, out property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	past	it	you					tree rules

Option 3

Blame the person next to you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obj
4	next	next	ADV	_	1 Blame	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Blame	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	the person	you			next property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme

Option 4

Sulk for the rest of the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sulk	sulk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 rest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rest	det
4	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sulk	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rest	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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