Test 5 · ★ · Chores you skipped

Gran, back from holiday: «Oh, my geraniums...» What's the right thing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: right thing · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 350 «Chores you skipped» 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: Gran, back from holiday: «Oh, my geraniums...»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 holiday	punct
3	back	back	ADV	_	5 holiday	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 holiday	case
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gran	appos
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 geraniums	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 geraniums	punct
8	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	11 geraniums	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Oh	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 geraniums	nmod:poss
11	geraniums	geranium	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Gran	appos
12	...	...	PUNCT	_	11 geraniums	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 geraniums	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: What's the right thing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the right thing						tree rules

The options

Option 1

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

Option 2

Say they were old and dying anyway, it wasn't the watering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dying	cc
6	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 old	conj
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 dying	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 watering	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 watering	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 watering	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 watering	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 watering	det
13	watering	watering	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	they		old property	tree rules
3	die	gerund	they not said here		anyway property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not is a	past	it	the watering		tree rules

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

Say sorry and buy her a new plant with her own money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 buy	cc
4	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 buy	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plant	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plant	amod
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buy	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 money	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 money	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 money	amod
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	buy	infinitive	you not said here	a new plant	her = she			with her own money	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary plant=Theme

Option 4

Say it was too hot

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 hot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	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					hot property	tree rules

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