Test 6 · ★★★ · What a real friend is
«Jake's sorry is two years late, that's mad, it doesn't count». Does it?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sorry, two years · What happens: be, not count, do · To what, where: two years, sorry
This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 485 «What a real friend is» 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: «Jake's sorry is two years late, that's mad, it doesn't count».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 mad | punct |
| 2 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sorry | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Jake | case |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 years | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 years | cop |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mad | nsubj |
| 8 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 years | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mad | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 mad | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 mad | cop |
| 12 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 count | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 count | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 count | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 count | advmod |
| 17 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 mad | parataxis |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 mad | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 mad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Jake's sorry | two years | late property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | two years | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not count in a quote | present · do-support | sorry | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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: Does it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Does | obj |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | sorry | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
No, sorries have a time limit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | sorries | sorry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 limit | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 limit | compound |
| 7 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | sorries | a time limit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
No, only sorries said on the very same day count
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 sorries | advmod |
| 4 | sorries | sorry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 count | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 count | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 same | advmod |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 count | compound |
| 11 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | sorries | the day count | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, a proper late sorry can still heal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 heal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sorry | det |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sorry | amod |
| 5 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sorry | amod |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heal | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 heal | aux |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 heal | advmod |
| 9 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heal | can | a proper late sorry | still | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Yes, but only with a present
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 present | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 present | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 present | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 present | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 present | det |
| 7 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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