Test 7 · ★ · Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry

muttered «stupid tidy-up» last week and mum didn't hear. «it worked last time, so it's fine». Is it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, it · What happens: mutter, not hear, work, be

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 355 «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» 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: muttered «stupid tidy-up» last week and mum didn't hear.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 tidy	punct
3	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tidy	amod
4	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 muttered	xcomp
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tidy	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 tidy	compound:prt
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 muttered	punct
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 week	amod
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 muttered	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hear	cc
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hear	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hear	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hear	advmod
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 muttered	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 muttered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mutter speech: assert	past					week	tidy property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not hear	past · do-support	mum						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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: «it worked last time, so it's fine».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 worked	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 worked	nsubj
3	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worked	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 fine	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fine	expl
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 worked	ccomp
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 worked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work in a quote	past	it				time		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present						fine property	tree rules

Sentence 3: Is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Is	nsubj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Yes, if she didn't hear it then it doesn't really count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 hear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 hear	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hear	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hear	advmod
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hear	obj
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 count	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 count	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 count	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 count	advmod
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 count	advmod
14	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hear	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · do-support	she	it					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	not count	present · do-support	it				then		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it's still rude, and next time she may hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 rude	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rude	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rude	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 rude	advmod
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hear	cc
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	obl:unmarked
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 rude	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it				still	rude property	tree rules
2	hear	may	she				time		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Only on weekends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 weekends	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 weekends	case
3	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, muttering never counts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 muttering	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	muttering	mutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 counts	advmod
5	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 muttering	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mutter speech: assert	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not count	present							vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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