Test 2 · Forgiving
Your mate says «if you forgive someone you have to trust them 100% straight away». Is that right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, you, that · What happens: say, forgive, have, trust, be · To what, where: someone, them · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 of lesson 454 «Forgiving» 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: Your mate says «if you forgive someone you have to trust them 100% straight away».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 forgive | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 forgive | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 forgive | nsubj |
| 7 | forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 forgive | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 someone | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 trust | mark |
| 12 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | xcomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 trust | obj |
| 14 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 % | nummod |
| 15 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 12 trust | obj |
| 16 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 away | advmod |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 trust | advmod |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 forgive | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | forgive a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | someone | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | trust in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | them = they | away property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme %=Eventuality |
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: Is that right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 right | nsubj |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
No — you can forgive and trust slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgive | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 forgive | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgive | aux |
| 5 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 No | parataxis |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 trust | cc |
| 7 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forgive | conj |
| 8 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 7 trust | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | can | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | trust | infinitive | you not said here | slowly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
No, you must never trust again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 trust | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 trust | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 trust | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 trust | advmod |
| 6 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 trust | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not trust | must | you | again | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, but that's only for best friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 friends | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 friends | cc |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 friends | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 friends | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 friends | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 friends | case |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 friends | amod |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | for best friends | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, or else it isn't real forgiveness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 forgiveness | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 forgiveness | cc |
| 4 | else | else | ADV | _ | 9 forgiveness | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forgiveness | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 forgiveness | cop |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 forgiveness | advmod |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 forgiveness | amod |
| 9 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | it | real forgiveness | else property | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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