Test 10 · ★ · Accidents told too late

Which is TRUE about telling about an accident at once?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, tell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 343 «Accidents told too late» 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 telling	mark
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 TRUE	advcl
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 accident	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 accident	det
8	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telling	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 telling	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund						about a accident	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about accident=Topic

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It often stops it getting worse and is easier to forgive

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	3 stops	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 stops	advmod
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stops	obj
5	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 getting	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 easier	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 easier	cop
9	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 stops	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 forgive	mark
11	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	it	often property	tree rules
2	get	gerund			bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present			easy property	tree rules
4	forgive	to-infinitive				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It never makes a difference

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	3 makes	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 makes	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 difference	det
5	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present	It	a difference					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product

Option 3

It is only for big accidents

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	6 accidents	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 accidents	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 accidents	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 accidents	case
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 accidents	amod
6	accidents	accident	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for big accidents	tree rules

Option 4

It always gets you a bigger punishment than hiding it would

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	3 gets	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 gets	advmod
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 gets	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 punishment	det
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 punishment	amod
7	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 would	nsubj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 hiding	mark
9	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 punishment	acl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hiding	obj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	It	you				always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	hide	gerund	a bigger punishment not said here	punishment					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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