Test 6 · ★★★ · Breaking things and hiding the pieces

Jamie: «I already confessed once, so I can't go again, it's too embarrassing». What did the priest teach?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jamie, I, it · What happens: confess, not go, be, do · To what, where: priest teach

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: Jamie: «I already confessed once, so I can't go again, it's too embarrassing».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jamie	Jamie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 confessed	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Jamie	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 confessed	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 confessed	nsubj
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 confessed	advmod
6	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 confessed	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 go	advmod
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 confessed	ccomp
14	again	again	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 embarrassing	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 embarrassing	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 embarrassing	cop
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 embarrassing	advmod
19	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 go	parataxis
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 embarrassing	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 confessed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	confess in a quote	past	Jamie		once property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not go in a quote	can	I	again		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	it		embarrassing property	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 did the priest teach?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teach	det
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teach	compound
5	teach	teach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the priest teach					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teach=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

He's right, once is enough

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	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 enough	punct
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 enough	advmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 enough	cop
7	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	He not said here					enough, once property	tree rules

Option 2

He should wait a whole year before going back, so the priest forgets him

The tree, 14 words

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	3 wait	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wait	aux
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 year	amod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wait	obl:unmarked
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wait	advcl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 forgets	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 forgets	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 priest	det
13	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forgets	nsubj
14	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wait	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 forgets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	should	He		year	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go back	gerund	He not said here			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	forget	present	the priest	him = he		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Go again: forgiveness doesn't run out, and put it right too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 run	punct
4	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 run	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 run	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 run	advmod
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	parataxis
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 run	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 run	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	obj
13	right	right	ADV	_	11 put	advmod
14	too	too	ADV	_	11 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		again		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not run out	present · do-support	forgiveness				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put	infinitive	forgiveness not said here	forgiveness		right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

Option 4

Confession only works once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Confession					once property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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