Test 1 · ★★ · Finders keepers and what belongs to whom

Your mate shouts, "Finders keepers, losers weepers, that phone's mine now!" How do you put him right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, you · What happens: shout, put · To what, where: Finders keepers, mate

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 42 «Finders keepers and what belongs to whom» of the religion ethics 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: Your mate shouts, "Finders keepers, losers weepers, that phone's mine now!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouts	nsubj
3	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keepers	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 keepers	punct
6	Finders	finder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keepers	compound
7	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shouts	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 weepers	punct
9	losers	loser	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 weepers	compound
10	weepers	weeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keepers	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mine	punct
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 phone	det
13	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mine	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 phone	case
15	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 keepers	conj
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 shouts	advmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 shouts	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Your mate	Finders keepers and losers weepers			now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keeper=Topic

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: How do you put him right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 put	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present · do-support	you		mate			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only keep it if it's an old phone nobody wants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 keep	advmod
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 phone	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 phone	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 phone	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 phone	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 phone	amod
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	xcomp
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 wants	nsubj
11	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 phone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	it	a old phone	tree rules
3	want	present	nobody	a old phone not said here	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot phone=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's still the owner's phone, they'll be gutted, hand it in

The tree, 14 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	7 phone	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 phone	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	7 phone	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 owner	det
5	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 phone	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 owner	case
7	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 phone	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gutted	nsubj:pass
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 gutted	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 gutted	aux:pass
12	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 phone	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hand	punct
14	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 phone	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hand	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	14 hand	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the owner's phone	still	tree rules
2	gut	future · passive		they		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
3	hand in	infinitive		phone		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

He's right, the law says anything you find is yours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 law	det
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	advcl
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 yours	nsubj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 find	nsubj
10	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 anything	acl:relcl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 yours	cop
12	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		right property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the law			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	find	present	you			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	anything	yours		tree rules

Option 4

Sell it quick before the owner turns up looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sell	obj
3	quick	quick	ADV	_	1 Sell	advmod
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 turns	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 owner	det
6	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turns	nsubj
7	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sell	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 turns	compound:prt
9	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 turns	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sell	imperative	you not said here	it	quick property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	turn up	present	the owner			tree rules
3	look	gerund	the owner not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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