Test 11 · ★★ · When someone else takes your punishment
Teacher: «Paint footprints, from the pot to your chair. Fell by itself, did it?» What's best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, be · To what, where: chair
This is test 11 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: Teacher: «Paint footprints, from the pot to your chair.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 footprints | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 footprints | punct |
| 4 | Paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 footprints | compound |
| 5 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Teacher | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pot | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 pot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 footprints | appos |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 chair | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 chair | nmod:poss |
| 12 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pot | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teacher | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Fell by itself, did it?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fell | fell | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 itself | case |
| 3 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Fell | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fell | punct |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 did | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | chair | fell property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Sentence 3: What's best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 best | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 best | cop |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Own up and clean the table and floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Own | own | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Own | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 clean | cc |
| 4 | clean | clean | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Own | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clean | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 floor | cc |
| 8 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 table | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own up | imperative | you not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | clean | infinitive | you not said here | the table and floor | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent table=Patient |
Option 2
Say someone else walked through the mud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | else | else | ADV | _ | 2 someone | advmod |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 mud | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mud | det |
| 7 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | someone | the mud | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mud=Trajectory |
Option 3
Say the pot is haunted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pot | det |
| 3 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 haunted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 haunted | aux:pass |
| 5 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Say | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | haunt | present · passive | the pot | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
Option 4
Say nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Say | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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