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Test 8 · ★ · Excuses and the lies that grow

Gran: «Was he really too tired to come? I'd made scones.» What would make it right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, I · What happens: be, come, make · To what, where: scones, Gran

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 337 «Excuses and the lies that grow» 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: Gran: «Was he really too tired to come?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tired	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Gran	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	1 Gran	punct
4	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tired	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tired	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 tired	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 tired	advmod
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tired	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	he					Gran obl:unmarked; tired property	tree rules
2	come in a quote	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «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: I'd made scones.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	scones	scone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	I	scones					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scone=Product

Sentence 3: What would make it right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 make	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would		Gran				right property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary it=Product

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He sends someone else instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sends	nsubj
2	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 sends	obj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 someone	advmod
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	2 sends	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	He	someone				instead property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme

Option 2

He forgets about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgets	nsubj
2	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	He					about it	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He says sorry and visits her next week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 visits	cc
5	visits	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 week	nmod:poss
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 week	amod
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	present	He					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	visit	present	He not said here				week		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He says he was too tired again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he				again	tired property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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