Test 4 · ★ · Classroom rules and homework

Why is it better to explain in private when you were wrongly blamed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, explain, blame · To what, where: private, you

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 better	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 better	nsubj
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 explain	mark
6	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 better	csubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 private	case
8	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 explain	obl
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 blamed	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 blamed	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 blamed	aux:pass
12	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	_	13 blamed	advmod
13	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 explain	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			good property	tree rules
2	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive			private		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	blame	past · passive		you		wrongly property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

It lets you skip the lesson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lets	nsubj
2	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 lets	obj
4	skip	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lets	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lesson	det
6	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	It	you					tree rules
2	skip	infinitive	you not said here	the lesson					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Agent

Option 2

It makes the others get punished instead of you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 others	det
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 punished	aux:pass
6	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 makes	xcomp
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	9 you	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the others				instead you	tree rules
2	punish	present · passive	the others not said here						vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A calm talk is more likely to be heard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 talk	det
2	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 likely	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 likely	cop
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 likely	advmod
6	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 heard	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 heard	aux:pass
9	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 likely	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a calm talk					likely property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive · passive	a calm talk not said here						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Teachers never listen to anything said in class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 listen	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 listen	advmod
3	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 anything	case
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 said	obl
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listen	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 class	case
8	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not listen	present	Teachers						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Teachers not said here		anything	class			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to anything=Recipient

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