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Test 11 · ★ · Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa

Theo's mate: "Footballers are thick, they never say anything interesting." What is the fairer view?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, Footballers, fairer view · What happens: be, not say · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 53 «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» 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: Theo's mate: "Footballers are thick, they never say anything interesting."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Theo	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thick	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 thick	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thick	punct
6	Footballers	footballer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thick	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thick	cop
8	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 say	advmod
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thick	conj
13	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 say	obj
14	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 anything	amod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thick	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Theo's mate					thick property	tree rules
2	not say speech: assert in a quote	present	Footballers = footballer	anything					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=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 fairer view?

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 view	det
4	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 view	amod
5	view	view	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 fairer view						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are trained to be careful, because words get twisted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trained	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trained	aux:pass
3	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 careful	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 careful	cop
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trained	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 get	mark
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 get	nsubj
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trained	parataxis
11	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	present · passive		They					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	They not said here					careful property	tree rules
3	get	present	words					twisted property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

They save interesting things for their pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 save	nsubj
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 save	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 pets	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pets	nmod:poss
7	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present	They	interesting things				for things's pets	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Theme for pet=Beneficiary

Option 3

He's right; footballers cannot think at all, they only kick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct
5	footballers	footballer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 think	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 think	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 think	advmod
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 think	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kick	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kick	nsubj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 kick	advmod
14	kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 think	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	not think speech: other	can	footballers			all			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	kick	present	footballers = footballer						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Footballers are banned from talking about football to anybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Footballers	footballer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banned	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	aux:pass
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 talking	mark
5	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 banned	advcl
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 football	case
7	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 anybody	case
9	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	present · passive		Footballers					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	talk	gerund						about football; to anybody	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about football=Topic to anybody=Co-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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