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Test 11 · ★ · Leaving someone out

«just say sorry, then you can do it again». Why is that wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, that · What happens: say, do, be · To what, where: sorry, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 347 «Leaving someone out» 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: «just say sorry, then you can do it again».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 do	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	obj
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 do	advmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	sorry					tree rules
2	do in a quote	can	you	it			then; again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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: Why is that wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wrong	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 wrong	nsubj
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Only grown-ups say sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 ups	advmod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	grown ups						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Sorries don't matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sorries	sorry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 matter	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	Sorries						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A real sorry means trying not to do it again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sorry	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sorry	amod
3	sorry	sorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	xcomp
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 do	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trying	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a real sorry						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try not said to happen	gerund	a real sorry not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	not do not said to happen	to-infinitive	a real sorry not said here	sorry			again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Sorry works every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Sorry				time		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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