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Test 9 · ★★ · Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and i…

Kofi's mate says, "my dad calls me useless too, it's just how dads talk." What's the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, dad, truth · What happens: say, call, be · To what, where: mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» 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: Kofi's mate says, "my dad calls me useless too, it's just how dads talk."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kofi	Kofi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kofi	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 calls	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 calls	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dad	nmod:poss
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 calls	nsubj
9	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 calls	obj
11	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 calls	xcomp
12	too	too	ADV	_	11 useless	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 talk	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 talk	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 talk	cop
16	just	just	ADV	_	19 talk	advmod
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 talk	advmod
18	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 talk	nsubj
19	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Kofi's mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call in a quote	present	my dad		Kofi's mate = mate			useless property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is in a quote	present	mate					talk property	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 the truth?

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

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

Being called useless often isn't okay; tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 called	aux:pass
2	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 called	xcomp
4	often	often	ADV	_	7 okay	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 okay	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 okay	advmod
7	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 useless	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	advcl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund · passive						useless property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
2	not is	present						often, okay property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 2

It's normal, it's how dads talk, so there's nothing anyone can do

The tree, 15 words

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 normal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	cop
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talk	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 talk	cop
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 talk	advmod
8	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 talk	nsubj
9	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 's	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 's	advmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 's	expl
13	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	parataxis
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 's	nsubj
15	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 do	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					normal property	tree rules
2	is	present	it					talk property	tree rules
3	be	present	nothing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	can	anyone						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Kids should call their dads useless back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 call	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 call	aux
3	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dads	nmod:poss
5	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 call	obj
6	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 call	xcomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	3 call	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	should	Kids		Kids's dads			useless property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient

Option 4

If dads say it, it's probably true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 say	mark
2	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 true	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 true	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 true	cop
8	probably	probably	ADV	_	9 true	advmod
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	dads	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is	present	it					probably, true property	tree rules

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