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Test 1 · ★ · Sharing toys and playing board games fairly

A boy in Glasgow loses a game of snakes and ladders and blames his sister. What should he understand?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: lose, blame, understand · To what, where: game, sister

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 242 «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Glasgow loses a game of snakes and ladders and blames his sister.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loses	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Glasgow	case
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loses	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 snakes	case
9	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 game	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ladders	cc
11	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 snakes	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 blames	cc
13	blames	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loses	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sister	nmod:poss
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blames	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	a boy in Glasgow	a game of snakes and ladders					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
2	blame	present	a boy in Glasgow not said here	boy's sister					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme

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 should he understand?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 understand	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 understand	nsubj
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	should	boy						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

He did not think hard enough about his moves

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	4 think	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 think	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 think	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 moves	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 moves	nmod:poss
9	moves	move	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · do-support	He					about his moves; enough, hard property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about move=Topic
2	move		his = he						nom move «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

His sister must have moved the dice when he was not looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moved	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 moved	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 moved	aux
5	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dice	det
7	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moved	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 looking	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looking	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looking	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 looking	advmod
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 moved	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	must · perfect	His sister	the dice					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dice=Theme
2	not look	past · progressive	he						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a game of chance, so nobody caused it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 game	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 game	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 chance	case
6	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 game	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 caused	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 caused	advmod
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 caused	nsubj
10	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 game	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 caused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a game				of chance	tree rules
2	cause	past	nobody	chance					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient

Option 4

The board must have been set up the wrong way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 board	det
2	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 set	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 set	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 set	aux:pass
6	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 set	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set up	must · perfect · passive		the board					vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme way=Destination

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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