Test 18 · ★ · Playing fair and cheating in games

my cousin says a lad in his footy team dived n got a red card n banned for a year, is that real

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, lad, n · What happens: say, dive, get, ban, be · To what, where: red card n · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 200 «Playing fair and cheating in games» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lad	det
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dived	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 team	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 team	nmod:poss
8	footy	footy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 team	compound
9	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lad	nmod
10	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
11	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dived	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 n	det
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 n	amod
15	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 n	compound
16	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obj
17	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 n	acl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 year	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 year	det
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 banned	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 real	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 real	cop
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 real	mark
24	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dive	past	a lad in lad's footy team				tree rules
3	get	past	n	a red card n			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer n=Stimulus
4	ban	participle		a red card n not said here	year		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
5	is	present				real property	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

Diving is clever and allowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clever	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 allowed	cc
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 clever	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Diving					clever property	tree rules
2	allow	participle	Diving not said here						vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Probably blown up, but diving is cheating and can earn a yellow card

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	2 blown	advmod
2	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cheating	advcl
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 blown	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cheating	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 cheating	cc
6	diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cheating	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cheating	aux
8	cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 earn	cc
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 earn	aux
11	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cheating	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 card	det
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 card	amod
14	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 earn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blow up	participle	diving not said here		probably property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	cheat	present · progressive	diving			vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	earn	can	diving not said here	a yellow card		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme

Option 3

Divers always get banned for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Divers	diver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 banned	nsubj:pass
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 banned	advmod
3	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 banned	aux:pass
4	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	present · passive		Divers			year	always property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Referees never notice diving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Referees	referee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 notice	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 notice	advmod
3	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 notice	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	present	Referees	diving					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer diving=Stimulus

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