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Test 6 · ★ · Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up

Maddie thinks: "She started it, so I don't have to say sorry." Which is wiser?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maddie · What happens: think, start, not have, say, be · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 19 «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» 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: Maddie thinks: "She started it, so I don't have to say sorry."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 started	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 started	punct
5	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 started	nsubj
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 started	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 have	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 have	advmod
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 started	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 say	mark
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	xcomp
16	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 say	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Maddie						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	start in a quote	past	Maddie	it					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	not have in a quote	present · do-support	Maddie						tree rules
4	say speech: apologize in a quote	to-infinitive	Maddie not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 wiser?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 wiser	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wiser	cop
3	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wiser	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Never speak to that friend again after this

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 speak	advmod
2	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 friend	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speak	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 speak	advmod
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here				after this; again	to that friend	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to friend=Co-Agent

Option 2

Wait for the friend to say sorry first, however long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 friend	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 friend	det
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	xcomp
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 say	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 however	punct
10	however	however	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					for the friend; long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: apologize	to-infinitive	you not said here					first, sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Say something even meaner back so that the two of them are even

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Say	obj
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 meaner	advmod
4	meaner	meaner	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 something	acl:relcl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 meaner	advmod
6	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 are	mark
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 so	fixed
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 two	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 are	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 two	nmod
12	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	advcl
13	even	even	ADV	_	12 are	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	something					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
2	meaner back	present							tree rules
3	be	present	the two of them						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Say sorry for her own part, even if the friend started it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	xcomp
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 part	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 part	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 part	amod
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorry	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 started	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	12 started	advmod
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 started	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 friend	det
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 started	nsubj
12	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 started	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	start a condition, not said to happen	past	the friend	part					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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