Test 2 · ★★★ · Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back
"Soz babe," texts your cousin after forgetting your birthday. "k," you reply. What would a real apology add?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: texts, cousin, you, real apology · What happens: cousin, forget, reply, add · To what, where: birthday, babe cousin k
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 90 «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» 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: "Soz babe," texts your cousin after forgetting your birthday. "k," you reply.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 babe | punct |
| 2 | Soz | Soz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 babe | compound |
| 3 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 k | compound |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 babe | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cousin | punct |
| 6 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cousin | nsubj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 k | compound |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 forgetting | mark |
| 10 | forgetting | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 cousin | acl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 12 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forgetting | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cousin | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cousin | punct |
| 15 | k | k | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reply | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 k | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 reply | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 reply | nsubj |
| 19 | reply | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 reply | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cousin | texts | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | forget | gerund | your cousin not said here | your birthday | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | present | you | babe cousin k | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 a real apology add?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 add | obl |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 add | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 apology | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 apology | amod |
| 5 | apology | apology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 add | nsubj |
| 6 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 add | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | would | a real apology | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Naming what happened, understanding the hurt, and offering to make it up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naming | name | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Naming | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 understanding | punct |
| 5 | understanding | understand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Naming | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hurt | det |
| 7 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 understanding | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 offering | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 offering | cc |
| 10 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Naming | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 offering | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 make | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | understand | gerund | the hurt | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hurt=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | offer | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | make up not said to happen | to-infinitive | hurt | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot |
Option 2
Nothing; the text is perfect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 perfect | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 text | det |
| 4 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perfect | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 perfect | cop |
| 6 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the text | perfect property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A longer word than "soz"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 soz | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 soz | punct |
| 6 | soz | soz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 soz | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
More emojis and a gif
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 emojis | amod |
| 2 | emojis | emoji | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gif | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gif | det |
| 5 | gif | gif | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 emojis | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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