Test 1 · ★ · «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other
Mum in Derby: «you're both mardy and both guilty». What is she saying?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Derby · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 432 ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» 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: Mum in Derby: «you're both mardy and both guilty».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Derby | case |
| 3 | Derby | Derby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mum | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 mardy | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 mardy | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 mardy | nsubj |
| 7 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mardy | cop |
| 8 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 9 mardy | cc:preconj |
| 9 | mardy | mardy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mum | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 guilty | cc |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 guilty | advmod |
| 12 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mardy | conj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 guilty | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mum | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | mardy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | you not said 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: What is she saying?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 saying | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 saying | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saying | nsubj |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 saying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · progressive | Derby | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They're both hungry and tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hungry | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 hungry | advmod |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tired | cc |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hungry | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | both, hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | They not said here | tree rules |
Option 2
They're both happy and both innocent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happy | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 happy | advmod |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 innocent | cc |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 innocent | advmod |
| 7 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 happy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | both, happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | They not said here | tree rules |
Option 3
Only one of them did it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 did | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 did | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | one of them | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
They're both sulky and both did it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sulky | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sulky | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 sulky | advmod |
| 4 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 did | cc |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sulky | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | both, sulky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | both | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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