Test 6 · ★★ · Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop

Gran gives you a newspaper page to pick a horse "with a funny name, no money, just for fun." Is that gambling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gran · What happens: give, pick, be · To what, where: newspaper page, you, horse, gambling

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Gran gives you a newspaper page to pick a horse "with a funny name, no money, just for fun."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 gives	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 page	det
5	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 page	compound
6	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pick	mark
8	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gives	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pick	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 horse	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 name	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 name	det
14	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 name	amod
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pick	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 money	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 money	det
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 name	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fun	punct
20	just	just	ADV	_	22 fun	advmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 fun	case
22	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pick	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Gran	a newspaper page	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient page=Theme
2	pick	to-infinitive	Gran not said here	a horse				with a funny name and no money; for fun	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent horse=Theme for fun=Beneficiary

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: Is that gambling?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gambling	cop
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 gambling	det
3	gambling	gambling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gambling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		that gambling					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, Gran will lose her house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 lose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lose	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	aux
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	future	Gran	Gran's house					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Eventuality

Option 2

No, because horses cannot be bet on by anybody at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 bet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bet	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 bet	mark
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bet	nsubj:pass
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bet	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 bet	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 bet	aux:pass
8	bet	bet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 bet	compound:prt
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 anybody	case
11	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 bet	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 bet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bet on	can · passive	anybody	horses		all			vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, there is no money involved, it is just a game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 is	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 game	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 money	det
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
7	involved	involve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 money	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 game	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 game	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 game	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 game	det
13	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	involve	participle		no money not said here					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	money	a game					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, it is against the law for children to play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 law	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 law	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 law	cop
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 law	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 law	det
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 children	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 law	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 play	mark
11	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 law	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					against the law; for children	tree rules
2	play	to-infinitive							vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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