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Test 11 · ★ · Trust that breaks and takes long to mend

Leah's dad says Mr Patel trusted him with the till a year after he nicked sweets. Why did it take a year?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, Mr · What happens: say, trust, nick, take · To what, where: dad, sweets, till · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 82 «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» 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: Leah's dad says Mr Patel trusted him with the till a year after he nicked sweets.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leah	Leah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Leah	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 trusted	nsubj
6	Patel	Patel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mr	flat
7	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 trusted	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 till	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 till	det
11	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trusted	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trusted	obl:unmarked
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 nicked	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 nicked	nsubj
16	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trusted	advcl
17	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 nicked	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Leah's dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	trust	past	Mr		dad		year	with the till	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with till=Theme
3	nick	past	Mr	sweets					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient

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: Why did it take a year?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 take	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	expl
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support		till			year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Because the law says you must wait exactly one year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 says	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 law	det
3	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 wait	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wait	aux
7	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 year	nummod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wait	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the law						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait	must	you				year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Trust grows back through many kept promises, not one speech

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 grows	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 promises	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 promises	amod
6	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 promises	amod
7	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grows	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 speech	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 speech	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 speech	nummod
11	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promises	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	Trust			many kept promises and one speech			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through promise=Location
2	keep	participle							vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Because the till was broken until the next year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 broken	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 till	det
3	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	until	until	ADP	_	9 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		the till			year		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Because Mr Patel forgot about the sweets after a year and so the problem went away by itself

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 forgot	mark
2	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 forgot	nsubj
3	Patel	Patel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mr	flat
4	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 sweets	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sweets	det
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forgot	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgot	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 problem	det
14	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgot	conj
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 itself	case
18	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	Mr				year	about the sweets	tree rules
2	go away	past	the problem					by problem; away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

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