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Test 6 · ★★ · When it was my fault: owning up and making it right

Maddie's gran calls her a "proper scatterbrain" and says "my head's like a sieve too." What's the useful lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gran, head, useful lesson · What happens: call, say, be · To what, where: Maddie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 5 «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» 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's gran calls her a "proper scatterbrain" and says "my head's like a sieve too."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gran	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Maddie	case
3	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calls	nsubj
4	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 calls	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 scatterbrain	det
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 scatterbrain	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 scatterbrain	amod
9	scatterbrain	scatterbrain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calls	xcomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 scatterbrain	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 says	cc
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 calls	conj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 sieve	punct
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sieve	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sieve	cop
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 sieve	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sieve	det
19	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	ccomp
20	too	too	ADV	_	19 sieve	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sieve	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 sieve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	Maddie's gran		Maddie				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	present	Maddie's gran not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	my head					like a sieve	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 useful lesson?

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	5 lesson	det
4	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lesson	amod
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She should practise remembering without any help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 practise	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 practise	aux
3	practise	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	remembering	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 practise	xcomp
5	without	without	ADP	_	7 help	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 help	det
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 practise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	should	She					without any help	tree rules
2	remember	gerund	She not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Scatterbrains can never learn to remember things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scatterbrains	scatterbrain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 remember	mark
6	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 remember	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can	Scatterbrains						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	remember	to-infinitive	Scatterbrains not said here	things					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 3

Only old people are allowed to forget things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 people	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	aux:pass
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 forget	mark
7	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 allowed	xcomp
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		old people					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	forget not said to happen	to-infinitive	old people not said here	things					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Forgetting is normal, and a system like a fridge board helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forgetting	forgetting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 normal	nsubj
2	is	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	_	12 helps	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 helps	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 system	det
7	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 helps	nsubj
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 board	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 board	det
10	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 board	compound
11	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 system	nmod
12	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Forgetting					normal property	tree rules
2	help	present	a system like a fridge board						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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