Test 9 · ★ · Solving disagreements calmly

After a disagreement is solved, what helps friends move on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friends · What happens: solve, help, move on · To what, where: disagreement

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 54 «Solving disagreements calmly» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	SCONJ	_	5 solved	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 disagreement	det
3	disagreement	disagreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 solved	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 solved	aux:pass
5	solved	solve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 helps	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 solved	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 helps	nsubj
8	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 move	nsubj
10	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 helps	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 move	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	solve	present · passive		a disagreement	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	help	present			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	move on	infinitive	friends		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Reminding each other again and again who was wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reminding	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 wrong	csubj
2	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	1 Reminding	obj
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 each	fixed
4	again	again	ADV	_	1 Reminding	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 again	cc
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 again	conj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 wrong	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wrong	cop
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	gerund		each			again		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient
2	is	past						wrong property	tree rules

Option 2

Keeping a long list of the other person's mistakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 list	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 list	amod
4	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 mistakes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 person	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 person	amod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mistakes	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 person	case
10	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 list	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	gerund		a long list of the other person's mistakes	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme
2	list			the other person's mistakes	nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	mistake		the other person		nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Letting it go instead of bringing it up again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 bringing	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Letting	obj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Letting	xcomp
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 bringing	mark
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bringing	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 bringing	compound:prt
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 bringing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	let	gerund		it		tree rules
2	go	infinitive				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring up	gerund	Letting	it	again	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Telling lots of other people the whole story about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 story	csubj
2	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Telling	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 people	case
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lots	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 story	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		lots of other people					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lot=Recipient

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