Test 11 · ★ · Sharing toys and playing board games fairly

snakes n ladders, i'm on 5 n rolled 3. do i count 5 as one?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snakes, i, 5 n · What happens: n, be, roll, count · To what, where: ladders, 5 n, 3, 5

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 n	nsubj
2	n	n	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 n	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 n	punct
5	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 n	nsubj
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 n	cop
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 n	case
8	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 n	nummod
9	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 n	parataxis
10	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 n	acl
11	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 rolled	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 n	punct
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 count	aux
14	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 count	nsubj
15	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 n	conj
16	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 count	obj
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 count	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 n	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	n	present	snakes	ladders			tree rules
2	is	present	i		5 n		tree rules
3	roll	past	5 n not said here	3			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 3=Agent
4	count	present · do-support	i	5		as one	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent 5=Theme as one=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, count from the next square, so you land on 8

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 count	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 count	punct
3	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 square	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 square	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 square	amod
7	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 count	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 land	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 land	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 land	nsubj
11	land	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 count	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 8	case
13	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 land	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here			the next square			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	land	present	you			8			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on 8=Destination

Option 2

Move back 3 squares

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Move	advmod
3	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 squares	nummod
4	squares	square	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Move	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move back	imperative	you not said here	3 squares					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent square=Theme

Option 3

Start again from square 1, that's the rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Start	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 square	case
4	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl
5	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 square	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rule	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 rule	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rule	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rule	det
10	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 square	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here			square and the rule	again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	present	that	the rule					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, count 5 as one, so you land on 7

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 count	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 count	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 5	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 land	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 land	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 land	nsubj
10	land	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 count	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 7	case
12	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 land	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	5				as one	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent 5=Theme as one=Attribute
2	land	present	you			7			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on 7=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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