Test 3 · Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings

Why does saying sorry help when you feel guilty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: say, feel · To what, where: sorry help · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 94 «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saying	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 help	amod
5	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 feel	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 feel	nsubj
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	advcl
9	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feel	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support		sorry help					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent help=Topic
2	feel	present	you					guilty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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.

The options

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

It starts to fix things, so the guilt can go

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 starts	nsubj
2	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fix	mark
4	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 starts	xcomp
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fix	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guilt	det
9	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 starts	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	start	present	It		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fix	to-infinitive		things	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
3	go	can	the guilt		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It makes the other person forget what happened

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
6	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happened	nsubj
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forget	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	present	It	the other person	tree rules
2	forget	infinitive	the other person not said here		tree rules
3	happen	past			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It means you will never be told off

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj:pass
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 told	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 told	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell off speech: assert	future · passive		you					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 4

It shows the other person was wrong too

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 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrong	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	ccomp
8	too	too	ADV	_	2 shows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the other person					wrong property	tree rules

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