Test 2 · ★★ · Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits

"Ma, I'm fixin' to do it!" An hour later Bubba's still on his tablet. What is the honest version?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, honest version · What happens: fixin, do, be · To what, where: it

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 85 «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» 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: "Ma, I'm fixin' to do it!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fixin	punct
2	Ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fixin	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ma	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fixin	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fixin	aux
6	fixin	fixin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 fixin	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fixin	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 fixin	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fixin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fixin in a quote	present · progressive	I						tree rules
2	do in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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: An hour later Bubba's still on his tablet.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hour	det
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 tablet	advmod
4	Bubba	Bubba	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tablet	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Bubba	case
6	still	still	ADV	_	9 tablet	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 tablet	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tablet	nmod:poss
9	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tablet	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: What is the honest version?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 version	det
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 version	amod
5	version	version	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 honest version						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

I'm fixin' to do it right now, honest, Ma, I promise

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fixin	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fixin	aux
3	fixin	fixin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 fixin	punct
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fixin	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 now	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 do	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 honest	punct
11	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fixin	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Ma	punct
13	Ma	Ma	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 honest	vocative
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 promise	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 promise	nsubj
16	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fixin	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	fixin	present · progressive	I			tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	it	now	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	promise speech: promise	present	I			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

I've already done it, Ma, so you can go and check it

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Ma	punct
7	Ma	Ma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 done	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 done	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 check	cc
14	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present · perfect	I	it	Ma obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	go	can	you			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	check	infinitive	you not said here	it		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

I'm never doing it, Ma, because it's your room anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 doing	advmod
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Ma	punct
7	Ma	Ma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 room	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 room	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 room	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 room	cop
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 room	nmod:poss
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	advcl
14	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	13 room	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	present · progressive	I	it				Ma obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is a	present	it	your room				anyway property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

After this game, Ma, and then I'll really do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Ma	punct
5	Ma	Ma	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 game	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 do	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 do	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	future	I	game			after this game; then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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