Test 3 · ★★★ · Breaking things and hiding the pieces

Mum, pale: «why is the keyboard sticky and dead??» What should the boy say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: keyboard, boy · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 342 «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» 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: Mum, pale: «why is the keyboard sticky and dead??»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pale	punct
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mum	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 sticky	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 sticky	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 sticky	advmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sticky	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 keyboard	det
9	keyboard	keyboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sticky	nsubj
10	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mum	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dead	cc
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sticky	conj
13	??	??	PUNCT	_	10 sticky	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 sticky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the keyboard					sticky property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		the keyboard not said here						tree rules

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 the boy say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	the boy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

«I spilled juice yesterday and didn't tell you. Sorry»

Sentence 1: «I spilled juice yesterday and didn't tell you.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 spilled	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 spilled	nsubj
3	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spilled	obj
5	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spilled	obl:unmarked
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 tell	advmod
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spilled	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spilled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill in a quote	past	I	juice			yesterday		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location juice=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	I not said here		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

Sentence 2: Sorry»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Sorry	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

«The cat walked on it»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	obl
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk in a quote	past	the cat			it			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

Option 3

«It's just old»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 old	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	It					old property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

«It was like that already when I came home from school, honest»

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 that	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 that	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 came	obl
6	already	already	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 school	case
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 honest	punct
14	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	It					like that	tree rules
2	come in a quote	past	I			school		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from school=Initial_Location

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