Test 5 · ★★★ · Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody expla…

Tasmin: «If I ring Aunt Jo and tell her to say sorry, it'll be sorted, innit». What's most likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I · What happens: ring, tell, say, sort, innit, be · To what, where: Aunt, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 511 «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» 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: Tasmin: «If I ring Aunt Jo and tell her to say sorry, it'll be sorted, innit».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tasmin	Tasmin	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sorted	vocative
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 ring	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 ring	punct
4	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 ring	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ring	nsubj
6	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tasmin	parataxis
7	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ring	obj
8	Jo	Jo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Aunt	flat
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 ring	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	xcomp
14	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 say	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tasmin	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sorted	nsubj:pass
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sorted	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 sorted	aux:pass
19	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 innit	punct
21	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sorted	conj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 sorted	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sorted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	I	Aunt			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aunt=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	I not said here		Aunt		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: apologize not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here			sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	sort in a quote	future · passive		it		Tasmin vocative	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	innit in a quote	infinitive					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 most likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	1 What	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present						likely property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's not her job, and it probably won't fix it

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 job	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 job	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 job	advmod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 job	nmod:poss
5	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fix	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fix	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fix	nsubj
9	probably	probably	ADV	_	12 fix	advmod
10	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fix	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fix	advmod
12	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 job	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	her job					tree rules
2	not fix	future	job	it				probably property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Mum will thank her for interfering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thank	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 thank	aux
3	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 interfering	mark
6	interfering	interfere	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thank	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	future	Mum		her = she				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	interfere	gerund	Mum not said here						tree rules

Option 3

It will fix a years-long family row in a single phone call

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	3 fix	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fix	aux
3	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 years	det
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fix	obj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 years	punct
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 row	amod
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 row	compound
9	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fix	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 call	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 call	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 call	amod
13	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 call	compound
14	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fix	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	future	It	long family row		a single phone call	year		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Aunt Jo will come to the next party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
2	Jo	Jo	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Aunt	appos
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 party	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 party	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 party	amod
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	future	Aunt			the next party			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location

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