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Test 8 · ★ · Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets

Kofi's neighbour said, "I thought I could count on you." What does "reliable" mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: neighbour · What happens: say, think, count, mean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 4 «Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets» 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 neighbour said, "I thought I could count on you."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kofi	Kofi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 neighbour	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kofi	case
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 count	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 count	aux
11	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thought	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 count	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kofi's neighbour						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think speech: other in a quote	past	Kofi's neighbour = neighbour						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	count in a quote	could	Kofi's neighbour = neighbour					on you	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on you=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.

Sentence 2: What does "reliable" mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 reliable	punct
4	reliable	reliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mean	csubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 reliable	punct
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Someone you can trust to do what they promised

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 trust	nsubj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 trust	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 trust	aux
4	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trust	xcomp
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 promised	nsubj
9	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	can	Someone						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive	Someone not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	promise speech: promise	past	they						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Someone who pays other people to do their jobs for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 pays	nsubj
3	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Someone	acl:relcl
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pays	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pays	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 jobs	nmod:poss
9	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present		other people					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Asset
2	do	to-infinitive		people's jobs				for people	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
3	job		people						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Someone who never ever makes a mistake of any kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 makes	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 makes	advmod
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 makes	advmod
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Someone	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mistake	det
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 kind	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 kind	det
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mistake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present		a mistake of any kind			ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product
2	mistake		any kind						nom mistake «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Someone who always says yes to every single request

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 says	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 says	advmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Someone	acl:relcl
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 says	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 request	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 request	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 request	amod
9	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present			every single request			always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to request=Recipient

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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