Test 11 · Putting the blame on someone else

Which is TRUE about putting the blame on others?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, put · To what, where: blame, others

This is test 11 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

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 putting	mark
5	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 TRUE	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blame	det
7	blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 putting	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 others	case
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 putting	obl
10	?	?	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	put	gerund		the blame		others			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent blame=Theme on other=Destination

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 hurts someone innocent and is usually found out

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 hurts	nsubj
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 hurts	obj
4	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 someone	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux:pass
7	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 found	advmod
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hurts	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 found	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	It	someone					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient
2	find out	present · passive						usually property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»

Option 2

It's fine if they're younger

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 younger	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 younger	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 younger	cop
7	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	they					young property	tree rules

Option 3

It is never found out

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 found	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 found	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find out	present · passive		It					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 4

It's fine if you're very scared of what might happen

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 scared	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 scared	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 scared	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 scared	advmod
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advcl
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 happen	mark
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happen	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 happen	aux
12	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 scared	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		fine property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you	scared property	tree rules
3	happen	might			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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