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Test 4 · ★ · Leaving someone out

Mum on the phone: «Our son missed the bus because someone hid his bag.» The boy who hid it was joking. What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, someone, boy · What happens: miss, hide, joke, do · To what, where: bus, bag

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Mum on the phone: «Our son missed the bus because someone hid his bag.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 missed	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 phone	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phone	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mum	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 missed	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 missed	punct
7	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 missed	nsubj
9	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bus	det
11	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 missed	obj
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 hid	mark
13	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 hid	nsubj
14	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 missed	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bag	nmod:poss
16	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hid	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 missed	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 missed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss in a quote	past	Mum on the phone	the bus					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus
2	hide in a quote	past	someone	son's bag					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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.

Sentence 2: The boy who hid it was joking.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 joking	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 boy	acl:relcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	obj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 joking	aux
7	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 joking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the boy	bag					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	joke speech: other	past · progressive	the boy						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What should he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	boy						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Blame his mates for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mates	nmod:poss
3	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Blame	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Blame	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	his mates				for it	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent mate=Theme for it=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Say it was really funny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 funny	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 funny	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 funny	advmod
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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
2	is	past	it					funny property	tree rules

Option 3

Say the bag hid itself

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 bag	det
3	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 hid	obj

#	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	hide	past	the bag	bag					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Own up and say sorry

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 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Own	conj
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	xcomp

#	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	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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