Test 6 · ★ · Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up
You borrowed a friend's book and spilled juice on it. What should you do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: borrow, spill, do · To what, where: book
This is test 6 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: You borrowed a friend's book and spilled juice on it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 borrowed | nsubj |
| 2 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 book | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 friend | case |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 borrowed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 juice | cc |
| 8 | spilled | spill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 juice | amod |
| 9 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 book | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 juice | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 borrowed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | past | You | a friend's book and spilled juice on juice | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spill | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: What should you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Return it quickly and hope she doesn't notice the juice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Return | obj |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Return | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hope | cc |
| 5 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Return | conj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 notice | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 notice | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 notice | advmod |
| 9 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hope | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 juice | det |
| 11 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 notice | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | imperative | you not said here | it | quickly property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | hope | present | you not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not notice | present · do-support | she | the juice | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer juice=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Tell her at once and offer to replace it
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 | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Tell | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 offer | cc |
| 6 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 replace | mark |
| 8 | replace | replace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 offer | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replace | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | her = she | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | offer | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | replace not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | it | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
Option 3
Dry it and say nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dry | dry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Dry | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 say | cc |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dry | conj |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 say | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | imperative | you not said here | it | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
Option 4
Keep it and say you lost it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 say | cc |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | it | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lose | past | you | it | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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