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Test 7 · Putting the blame on someone else

Kid: «I blamed the teacher for my mark and Mum believed me twice, so it works». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, Mum, teacher, my · What happens: blame, believe, work, mark, be · To what, where: Kid, me

This is test 7 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: Kid: «I blamed the teacher for my mark and Mum believed me twice, so it works».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blamed	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Kid	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	1 Kid	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 blamed	nsubj
5	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blamed	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 mark	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mark	nmod:poss
10	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blamed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 believed	cc
12	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 believed	nsubj
13	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mark	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 believed	obj
15	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 believed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 works	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 works	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 works	nsubj
19	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blamed	parataxis
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 works	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blamed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame in a quote	past	I	Kid				for my mark	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme for mark=Attribute
2	believe in a quote	past	Mum	me				twice property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	work in a quote	present	teacher						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mark in a quote		my						nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=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's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	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

Teachers are always to blame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 always	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 always	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 blame	mark
5	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 always	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Teachers					always property	tree rules
2	blame	to-infinitive	Teachers not said here						vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

It still stops him learning, and it may not work the third time

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	still	still	ADV	_	3 stops	advmod
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stops	obj
5	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 work	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 work	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 work	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 work	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 work	advmod
11	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stops	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 work	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	him = he			still		tree rules
2	learn	gerund							vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not work	may	it				time		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Mums never check books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 check	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 check	advmod
3	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not check	present	Mums	books					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

Option 4

It works every time, so he should keep doing it, Mum never checks the books

The tree, 15 words

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 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 keep	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keep	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	aux
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 works	advcl
10	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keep	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 doing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 checks	punct
13	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 checks	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 checks	advmod
15	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 works	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 books	det
17	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 checks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It				time		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	should	he						tree rules
3	do	gerund	he not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	not check	present	Mum	the books					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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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