Test 10 · ★★ · When someone else takes your punishment

Which is TRUE about owning up after someone else was punished?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, own up, punish · To what, where: someone

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 345 «When someone else takes your punishment» 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 owning	mark
5	owning	own	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 TRUE	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 owning	compound:prt
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 punished	mark
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 punished	nsubj:pass
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 someone	advmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 punished	aux:pass
11	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 owning	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present		true property	tree rules
2	own up	gerund			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	punish	past · passive	someone		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

It only matters if they ask

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 matters	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 matters	advmod
3	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 ask	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ask	nsubj
6	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 matters	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	It						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	they						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It makes things worse for everyone

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 worse	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	things				bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material thing=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's late, but it still clears their name and helps

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 late	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 late	cop
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 clears	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 clears	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 clears	nsubj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 clears	advmod
8	clears	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 late	parataxis
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 name	nmod:poss
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clears	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 helps	cc
12	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 clears	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			late property	tree rules
2	clear	present	it	their name	still		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent name=Source
3	help	present					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	name		their = they				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

It's useless once they're punished, so there's no point now

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 useless	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 useless	cop
3	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	once	once	SCONJ	_	7 punished	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 punished	nsubj:pass
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 punished	aux:pass
7	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 useless	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 's	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 's	advmod
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 's	expl
11	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 useless	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 point	det
13	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 's	nsubj
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 's	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				useless property	tree rules
2	punish	present · passive		they				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	be	present	no point		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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