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Test 10 · Putting the blame on someone else

Mum, sweeping soil: «The cat's been asleep on my bed all morning». What does that tell the girl?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat, that · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: bed, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 344 «Putting the blame on someone else» 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, sweeping soil: «The cat's been asleep on my bed all morning».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 soil	punct
3	sweeping	sweeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soil	amod
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mum	conj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 asleep	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 asleep	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asleep	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 asleep	cop
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 asleep	cop
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mum	parataxis
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 bed	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bed	nmod:poss
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asleep	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 morning	det
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asleep	obl:unmarked
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 asleep	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Mum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the cat			my bed	morning	asleep 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 does that tell the girl?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	that		the girl				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient girl=Topic

The options

Option 1

The cat can sleepwalk and knock plants over in the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleepwalk	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleepwalk	aux
4	sleepwalk	sleepwalk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 knock	cc
6	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sleepwalk	conj
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knock	obj
8	over	over	ADV	_	6 knock	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knock	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleepwalk	can	the cat						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	knock over	infinitive	the cat not said here	plants			night		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

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

Her blame on the cat didn't work; owning up is best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 blame	nmod:poss
2	blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 work	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blame	nmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 work	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 work	advmod
8	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 best	punct
10	owning	own	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 best	csubj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 owning	compound:prt
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 best	cop
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 work	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	past · do-support	Her blame on the cat						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	own up	gerund							vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	is	present	owning					good property	tree rules
4	blame		Her = she					on the cat	nom blame «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=obl

Option 3

Mum is guessing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guessing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 guessing	aux
3	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present · progressive	Mum						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The plant fell by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plant	det
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 itself	case
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the plant					by plant	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

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