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Test 2 · Putting the blame on someone else

«nobody knows it was me who left the hamster cage open, they all think it's the new kid, sorted». What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody, it, they, cage, new kid · What happens: know, be, leave, think, sort · To what, where: me, hamster cage, new kid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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: «nobody knows it was me who left the hamster cage open, they all think it's the new kid, sorted».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 me	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 me	cop
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 knows	ccomp
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cage	det
10	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cage	compound
11	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obj
12	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 left	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 think	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 think	nsubj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 think	advmod
16	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kid	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 kid	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 kid	det
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 kid	amod
21	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 think	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sorted	punct
23	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 kid	acl:relcl
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 kid	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is a in a quote	past	it	me					tree rules
3	leave in a quote	past		the hamster cage				open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme
4	think speech: other in a quote	present	they						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	cage	the new kid					tree rules
6	sort in a quote	past	the new kid not said here						vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

New kids get blamed anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kids	amod
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blamed	nsubj:pass
3	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blamed	aux:pass
4	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 blamed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	present · passive		New kids				anyway property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

It's fine since the hamster was found safe and well in the end

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	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 found	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hamster	det
6	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux:pass
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fine	advcl
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 found	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 well	cc
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 found	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 end	det
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	find	past · passive		the hamster			in the end	safe property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sorted, nobody will know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 know	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sorted	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 know	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	participle	nobody not said here						vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	know	future	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The new kid is suffering for his wrong; he should own up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kid	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kid	amod
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suffering	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 suffering	aux
5	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 wrong	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wrong	nmod:poss
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 suffering	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 own	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 own	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 own	aux
12	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 suffering	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 own	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	present · progressive	the new kid					for kid's wrong	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	own up	should	kid						vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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