Test 6 · ★ · Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book
Ewan's teacher says, "Sorry with a 'but' is half a sorry." What would be better?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Ewan's teacher says, "Sorry with a 'but' is half a sorry."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ewan | Ewan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ewan | case |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sorry | punct |
| 7 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 4 says | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 sorry | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sorry | det |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 sorry | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 sorry | cc |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 but | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sorry | cop |
| 14 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 16 sorry | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sorry | det |
| 16 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sorry | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sorry | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sorry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ewan's teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | with a sorry | 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 would be better?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 better | obl |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It wasn't me, it was the cup
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 | 4 me | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 me | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 me | advmod |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 me | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cup | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cup | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cup | det |
| 9 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 me | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | It | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | it | the cup | tree rules |
Option 2
I spilled it, but the cup was far too close to the edge
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 | 2 spilled | nsubj |
| 2 | spilled | spill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spilled | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 close | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 close | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cup | det |
| 7 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 close | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 close | cop |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 close | advmod |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 close | advmod |
| 11 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spilled | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 edge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 edge | det |
| 14 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 close | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spill | past | I | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the cup | to the edge; close, far property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
I spilled it, I'm sorry, how can I help fix it?
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 | 2 spilled | nsubj |
| 2 | spilled | spill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spilled | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sorry | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sorry | nsubj |
| 6 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sorry | cop |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spilled | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 help | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 help | advmod |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 help | nsubj |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sorry | conj |
| 13 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 help | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fix | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 spilled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spill | past | I | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | can | I | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fix | infinitive | I not said here | it | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4
Sorry, but laptops shouldn't be on tables
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sorry | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 tables | cc |
| 4 | laptops | laptop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tables | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tables | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 tables | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tables | cop |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 tables | case |
| 9 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sorry | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | should | laptops | tables | tree rules |
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