Test 5 · ★★ · Shouty parents and bad days
Megan: «Mum cried cos of me, it's all my fault». What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, it · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: Megan, fault
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 494 «Shouty parents and bad days» 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: Megan: «Mum cried cos of me, it's all my fault».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Megan | Megan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Megan | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 4 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | cos | co | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cried | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 cos | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fault | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fault | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fault | cop |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 fault | det:predet |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fault | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 fault | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Mum | Megan | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent co=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | it | my fault | 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's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Mum cried because she wanted a new bus pass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 wanted | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pass | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pass | amod |
| 8 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pass | compound |
| 9 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Mum | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | want | past | Mum | a new bus pass | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pass=Theme |
Option 2
It's nobody's fault that she lost her bus pass
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 | 5 fault | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fault | cop |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 fault | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 nobody | case |
| 5 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 lost | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lost | nsubj |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fault | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pass | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pass | compound |
| 11 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | nobody's fault | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | she | her bus pass | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | pass | her = she | nom pass «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
She lost the pass, but the money stress isn't her fault
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pass | det |
| 4 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fault | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 fault | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stress | det |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stress | compound |
| 9 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fault | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fault | cop |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fault | advmod |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fault | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | She | the pass | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | the money stress | her fault | tree rules |
Option 4
It's all her fault, she should feel bad for days
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 | 5 fault | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fault | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 fault | advmod |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fault | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fault | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | aux |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fault | acl:relcl |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feel | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 feel | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | her fault | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feel | should | she | her fault not said here | day | bad property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Theme |
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