Test 3 · ★★ · Confession, prayer and making amends at church

Priest: «Weren't you here just last month?» Nathan nods, red. What's the best thing to say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Nathan, best thing · What happens: not be, nod, be, say · To what, where: last month, red · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 365 «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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: Priest: «Weren't you here just last month?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Priest	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 month	punct
4	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 month	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 month	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 month	nsubj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 month	advmod
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 month	advmod
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 month	amod
10	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Priest	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 month	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 month	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	past	you	last month		here			tree rules

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: Nathan nods, red.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 nods	nsubj
2	nods	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 red	punct
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nods	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 nods	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod	present	Nathan	red					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=Patient

Sentence 3: What's the best thing to say?

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	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best thing						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

«Yes, Father. I slipped again and I'm sorry»

Sentence 1: «Yes, Father.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Father	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 Father	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Father	punct
4	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Father	punct

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

Sentence 2: I slipped again and I'm sorry»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 slipped	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 slipped	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sorry	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sorry	nsubj
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sorry	cop
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slipped	conj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 slipped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	I				again		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	present	I					sorry property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

«I don't need to be forgiven this time, Father»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 need	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 forgiven	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 forgiven	aux:pass
8	forgiven	forgive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 need	xcomp
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forgiven	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Father	punct
12	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 need	vocative
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need in a quote	present · do-support	I					Father vocative	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	forgive not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here				time		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»

Option 3

«No, that was my brother»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 brother	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 brother	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 brother	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brother	cop
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brother	nmod:poss
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 brother	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	that	my brother					tree rules

Option 4

«I'm only here for Mum»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 here	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 here	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 here	advmod
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 Mum	case
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 here	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I					for Mum; here property	tree rules

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