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Test 6 · ★★ · Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did

«he only bullied me cos things were bad at home, so it was fine». Is that right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, things, that · What happens: bully, be · To what, where: me, home

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 484 «Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did» 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: «he only bullied me cos things were bad at home, so it was fine».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 bullied	punct
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bullied	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 bullied	advmod
4	bullied	bully	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bullied	obj
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 bad	mark
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bad	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bad	cop
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bullied	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 home	case
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bad	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fine	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 fine	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fine	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fine	cop
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bad	parataxis
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 fine	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bullied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bully in a quote	past	he		me				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
2	is in a quote	past	things			home		bad property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	past						fine property	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: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, a hard time makes it fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 makes	obj
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a hard time	it				fine property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It explains it, but it wasn't OK

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 explains	nsubj
2	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 explains	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 OK	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 OK	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 OK	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 OK	cop
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 OK	advmod
9	OK	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 explains	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present	It	it					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	not is	past	it					ok property	tree rules

Option 3

No, he made up the excuse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 excuse	det
7	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	he	the excuse					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme excuse=Pivot

Option 4

Yes, so Dad should apologise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 apologise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 apologise	advmod
4	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 apologise	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 apologise	aux
6	apologise	apologise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apologise speech: apologize	should	Dad						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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