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Test 9 · ★ · Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault

Mia says her dad lost his job because he was "rubbish at it". Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, dad · What happens: say, lose, be, job · To what, where: job, rubbish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 12 «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the reflection 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: Mia says her dad lost his job because he was "rubbish at it".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	nsubj
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 job	nmod:poss
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 rubbish	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rubbish	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rubbish	cop
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 rubbish	punct
12	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mia						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose	past	Mia's dad	dad's job		rubbish			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
3	is a in a quote	past	dad	rubbish					tree rules
4	job		dad						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	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

It always means the person was very bad at work

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 means	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 means	advmod
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bad	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bad	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 bad	advmod
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 work	case
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It					always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the person			work		bad property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It means her dad chose to stop working

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	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chose	nsubj
5	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chose	xcomp
8	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp

#	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	choose	past	her dad						tree rules
3	stop	to-infinitive	her dad not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	work	gerund	her dad not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It means the family did something wrong

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 did	obj
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod

#	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	do	past	the family	something					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It usually means there was no work for the job

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 means	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 means	advmod
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 work	det
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 job	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 job	det
10	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It					usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	past	no work for the job			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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