Test 12 · ★ · Birthday parties

lost musical chairs, so annoyed

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: lose

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 130 «Birthday parties» of the everyday 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	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chairs	amod
2	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chairs	amod
3	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 annoyed	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 annoyed	advmod
6	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chairs	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «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.

The options

Option 1

Ask to play again until you win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 play	mark
3	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 play	advmod
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 win	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 win	nsubj
7	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 play	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	again	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	win	present	you		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Congratulate the winner and keep smiling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Congratulate	congratulate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winner	det
3	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Congratulate	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 keep	cc
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Congratulate	conj
6	smiling	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	congratulate	imperative	you not said here	the winner	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winner=Theme
2	keep	present	you not said here		tree rules
3	smile	gerund	you not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Say the game was unfair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unfair	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unfair	cop
5	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the game					unfair property	tree rules

Option 4

Sulk until you go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sulk	sulk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
2	until	until	ADP	_	3 you	case
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Sulk	nmod
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Sulk until you					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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