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Test 9 · ★ · «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework

Noah: «someone nicked it outta my bag». What is the real harm of this lie?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Noah, real harm · What happens: nick, be, harm · To what, where: it, lie

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Noah: «someone nicked it outta my bag».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Noah	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 nicked	punct
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 nicked	nsubj
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nicked	obj
7	outta	outta	ADP	_	9 bag	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bag	nmod:poss
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 nicked	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick in a quote	past	Noah	it				outta my bag	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 is the real harm of this lie?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 harm	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 harm	amod
5	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 lie	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 lie	det
8	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harm	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the real harm of this lie						tree rules
2	harm			this lie					nom harm «state transitive»: of=patient

The options

Option 1

It's a compliment to his homework

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 compliment	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 compliment	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 compliment	det
4	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 homework	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 homework	nmod:poss
7	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 compliment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a compliment				to his homework	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Innocent kids in the class get suspected

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kids	amod
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 suspected	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 class	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 class	det
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kids	nmod
6	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 suspected	aux:pass
7	suspected	suspect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suspect	infinitive · passive		Innocent kids in the class					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute

Option 3

There is no harm at all, it's just a story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 harm	det
4	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 harm	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 story	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 story	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 story	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 story	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 story	det
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no harm at all			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	harm	a story					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It makes his bag look untidy and messy

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bag	nmod:poss
4	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	untidy	untidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 messy	cc
8	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 untidy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	his bag					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	his bag not said here					untidy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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