Test 18 · ★ · Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness

apparently that boy cheated at Monopoly at the sleepover and now nobody's playing with him ever. pass it round?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, nobody · What happens: cheat, play, pass · To what, where: Monopoly, sleepover

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 216 «Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness» 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	4 cheated	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheated	nsubj
4	cheated	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Monopoly	case
6	Monopoly	Monopoly	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cheated	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 sleepover	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sleepover	det
9	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheated	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 playing	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 playing	advmod
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 playing	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 playing	aux
14	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cheated	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 playing	obl
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 playing	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 pass	punct
19	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cheated	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pass	obj
21	round	round	ADV	_	19 pass	advmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cheated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	past	that boy		Monopoly		at the sleepover; apparently property	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	play	present · progressive	nobody			now; ever	with boy	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
3	pass	infinitive	that boy not said here	sleepover			round property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

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

Yes, so nobody plays with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 plays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 plays	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 plays	advmod
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 plays	nsubj
5	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	nobody					with him = he	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, gossip doesn't help; cheating spoils games though

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 help	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 help	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 help	advmod
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 spoils	punct
8	cheating	cheating	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spoils	nsubj
9	spoils	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 help	parataxis
10	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spoils	obj
11	though	though	ADV	_	9 spoils	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present · do-support	gossip						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	spoil	present	cheating	games				though property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and add that he cheats at school and in tests too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 add	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 add	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 add	cc
4	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 cheats	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cheats	nsubj
7	cheats	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 add	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 school	case
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheats	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tests	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 tests	case
12	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 add	conj
13	too	too	ADV	_	4 add	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	cheat	present	he			school			vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, if it's true it's fine to spread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 true	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 true	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fine	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fine	expl
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 spread	mark
11	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	it	true property	tree rules
2	is	present		fine property	tree rules
3	spread	to-infinitive			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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