Test 8 · ★ · What fights cost at home

«some posh mum said maddie's mum is raising a thug. well rude». What's fair to say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: posh mum, mum · What happens: say, raise, be · To what, where: thug · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 376 «What fights cost at home» 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: «some posh mum said maddie's mum is raising a thug. well rude».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 mum	det
3	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mum	amod
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	maddie	maddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mum	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 maddie	case
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 raising	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 raising	aux
10	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thug	det
12	thug	thug	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 raising	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 rude	punct
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 rude	advmod
15	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 rude	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	some posh mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	raise in a quote	present · progressive	maddie's mum	a thug					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thug=Theme

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: What's fair to say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 fair	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	cop
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fair	csubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fair property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It doesn't matter at all what other people say about a family, ever

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 matter	obl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 say	obj
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 all	acl:relcl
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 family	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 family	det
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ever	punct
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 matter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	It			all	ever		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	other people					about a family	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's unkind to blame the mum, but fights do give a family a bad name

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 unkind	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unkind	cop
3	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 blame	mark
5	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unkind	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mum	det
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blame	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 give	cc
10	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 give	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unkind	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 family	det
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 name	det
16	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 name	amod
17	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		unkind property	tree rules
2	blame	to-infinitive		the mum		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Theme
3	give	present · do-support	fights	a family		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent family=Recipient name=Theme

Option 3

Maddie's mum taught her to fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Maddie	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taught	nsubj
4	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taught	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fight	mark
7	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 taught	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	Maddie's mum		Maddie				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fight	to-infinitive	Maddie's mum not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The posh mum is totally right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mum	det
2	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mum	amod
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 right	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 right	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 right	advmod
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the posh mum					right, totally property	tree rules

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