Test 5 · ★ · «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework
Ruby binned her homework and nobody asked. Which is TRUE?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ruby, nobody · What happens: bin, ask, be · To what, where: homework
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 426 ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» 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: Ruby binned her homework and nobody asked.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 binned | nsubj |
| 2 | binned | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 homework | nmod:poss |
| 4 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 binned | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 6 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 binned | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 binned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin | past | Ruby | Ruby's homework | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent homework=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | nobody | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Which is TRUE?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 TRUE | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 TRUE | cop |
| 3 | TRUE | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 TRUE | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
She got away with it but stayed stuck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | obl |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 stayed | cc |
| 7 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 8 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stayed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get away | past | She | with it; away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | She not said here | stuck property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Her brother learned the sums for her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sums | det |
| 5 | sums | sum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learned | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 learned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Her brother | the sums | for her = she | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Topic |
Option 3
Getting away with it fixed the sums for her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 fixed | csubj |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Getting | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Getting | obl |
| 5 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sums | det |
| 7 | sums | sum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fixed | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fixed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get away | gerund | with it; away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fix | past | Getting | the sums | for her = she | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sum=Product for she=Beneficiary |
Option 4
The test was cancelled because of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 test | det |
| 2 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cancelled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cancelled | aux:pass |
| 4 | cancelled | cancel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 it | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 because | fixed |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cancelled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cancel | past · passive | the test | because it | tree rules |
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