Test 5 · ★ · Chain messages, lures and scam messages
Someone online has sent a scary threat. Whose fault is it?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fault · What happens: send, be · To what, where: Someone, fault
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 282 «Chain messages, lures and scam messages» 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: Someone online has sent a scary threat.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | online | online | ADV | _ | 1 Someone | advmod |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 threat | det |
| 6 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 threat | amod |
| 7 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect · passive | Someone | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination threat=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.
Sentence 2: Whose fault is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 2 fault | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 it | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fault | fault | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nobody's, so just ignore it forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 ignore | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Nobody | case |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ignore | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 ignore | advmod |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 ignore | advmod |
| 6 | ignore | ignore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ignore | obj |
| 8 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 6 ignore | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | infinitive | Nobody | it | forever property | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2
Yours, if you replied to them once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 replied | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | obl |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 replied | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Yours | them = they | once property | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Never yours; tell a trusted adult and do not send anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 yours | advmod |
| 2 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 yours | parataxis |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 adult | det |
| 6 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 adult | amod |
| 7 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 send | cc |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 send | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 send | advmod |
| 11 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | conj |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 send | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not send | infinitive · do-support | anything | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
Option 4
Yours, so you must fix it alone without telling any grown-up at all
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fix | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fix | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 fix | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 fix | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fix | aux |
| 6 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fix | obj |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 fix | advmod |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 telling | mark |
| 10 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fix | advcl |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 telling | obj |
| 12 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 any | acl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 grown | compound:prt |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 telling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | must | Yours | it | alone property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Yours not said here | any | all | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent any=Recipient | |||
| 3 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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