Test 9 · ★★ · Borrowing without asking

Which is TRUE about slipping back after saying sorry?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, slip back, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 339 «Borrowing without asking» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 slipping	mark
5	slipping	slip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 TRUE	advcl
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 slipping	advmod
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 saying	mark
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 slipping	advcl
9	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saying	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	is	present	true property	tree rules
2	slip back	gerund		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	say speech: apologize	gerund	sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 doesn't matter after the first time

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	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	It				time		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It happens to everyone, but each slip still has to be put right

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 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 everyone	case
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 happens	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 has	cc
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 slip	det
8	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 has	advmod
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 happens	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	13 put	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 put	aux:pass
13	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 has	xcomp
14	right	right	ADV	_	13 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It		to everyone	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	each slip	still		tree rules
3	put	to-infinitive · passive	each slip not said here		right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»

Option 3

It means the first sorry was useless

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sorry	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 sorry	amod
5	sorry	sorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 useless	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 useless	cop
7	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the first sorry					useless property	tree rules

Option 4

It means you are a bad person forever and can never change

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 person	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 person	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	amod
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	ccomp
8	forever	forever	ADV	_	7 person	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 change	cc
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 change	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 change	advmod
12	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	you	a bad person	forever property	tree rules
3	not change	can				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/t9/