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Test 5 · ★ · Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book

"Crap, I've had this cracked screen a week, Dad'll kill me," says Josh. What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Josh, Dad, best advice · What happens: have, crack, kill, say, be · To what, where: Crap, Josh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 89 «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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: "Crap, I've had this cracked screen a week, Dad'll kill me," says Josh.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
2	Crap	crap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Crap	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
5	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 had	aux
6	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 says	ccomp
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 screen	det
8	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 screen	amod
9	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 week	det
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kill	punct
13	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kill	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 kill	aux
15	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 kill	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kill	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 says	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present · perfect	Josh	Crap			week		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screen=Patient
2	crack in a quote	participle							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kill in a quote	future	Dad	Josh					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	Josh						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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: What is the best advice?

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 advice	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 advice	amod
5	advice	advice	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 best advice						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Blame the crack on the shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crack	det
3	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 shop	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shop	det
6	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	the crack		the shop			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Theme

Option 2

Wait another week or two until Dad's in a really good mood, then tell him

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 week	det
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl:unmarked
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 two	cc
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 week	conj
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 mood	mark
7	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 mood	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Dad	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 mood	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mood	det
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 good	advmod
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mood	amod
13	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		Dad		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

Sell the phone and say it was stolen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 phone	det
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sell	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sell	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stolen	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stolen	aux:pass
8	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	imperative	you not said here	the phone					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	steal	past · passive		phone					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell him now; late is better than never, and say sorry for hiding it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Tell	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 better	punct
5	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 better	advmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 better	cop
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Tell	parataxis
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 never	case
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 better	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
13	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 say	obj
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 hiding	mark
15	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 say	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hiding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	present						good, late property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	sorry					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic
4	hide	gerund	you not said here	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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