Test 11 · ★★ · Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop
Which of these is a "flutter"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 28 «Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop» of the adult life 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 flutter | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 flutter | case |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 flutter | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 flutter | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flutter | det |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 flutter | punct |
| 7 | flutter | flutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 flutter | punct |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 flutter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | of a flutter | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Betting the rent money every week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Betting | bet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 money | det |
| 3 | rent | rent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 money | compound |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Betting | obj |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Betting | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bet | gerund | the rent money | week | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Recipient |
Option 2
Playing on a betting app every night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 app | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 app | det |
| 4 | betting | betting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 app | compound |
| 5 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obl |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | a betting app | night | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Two pounds on a horse once a year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pounds | nummod |
| 2 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 horse | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pounds | nmod |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 pounds | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 once | obl:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Borrowing money to keep betting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Borrowing | borrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Borrowing | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 keep | mark |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Borrowing | advcl |
| 5 | betting | bet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 keep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | gerund | money | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bet | gerund | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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