Test 21 · ★ · Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up

you teased your sister about her boyfriend in front of her friends and she cried. what's owning up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, boyfriend · What happens: tease, cry, own up · To what, where: sister

This is test 21 · ★ of lesson 285 «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» 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	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 teased	nsubj
2	teased	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sister	nmod:poss
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teased	iobj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 boyfriend	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 boyfriend	nmod:poss
7	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teased	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boyfriend	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 friends	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friends	nmod:poss
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 front	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cried	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cried	nsubj
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 teased	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 teased	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 owning	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 owning	aux
19	owning	own	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 teased	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 owning	compound:prt
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 teased	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tease	past	you	your sister	about her boyfriend in front of boyfriend's friends	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	boyfriend			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	own up	present · progressive				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

Say sorry to her and stop teasing her about him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sorry	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stop	cc
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sorry	conj
7	teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 teasing	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 teasing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	sorry		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic
2	stop	present	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	tease	gerund	you not said here	her = she	about him = he	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2

Blame her friends for laughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friends	nmod:poss
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Blame	obj
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 laughing	mark
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Blame	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	her friends					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
2	laugh	gerund	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Say it was a joke so it doesn't count

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	5 joke	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	ccomp
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 count	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 count	nsubj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 count	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 count	advmod
10	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	advcl

#	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
2	is a	past	it	a joke	tree rules
3	not count	present · do-support	joke		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Tell her boyfriend she cried so he knows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 boyfriend	nmod:poss
3	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boyfriend	acl:relcl
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 knows	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knows	nsubj
8	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her boyfriend	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boyfriend=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cry speech: express	past	boyfriend	her boyfriend not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boyfriend=Topic
3	know	present	he			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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