Test 12 · ★ · Sharing toys and playing board games fairly
my mate reckons in chess u win by taking all the pieces. right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, u · What happens: reckon, win, take · To what, where: chess, pieces
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reckons | nsubj |
| 3 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 chess | case |
| 5 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reckons | obl |
| 6 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 win | nsubj |
| 7 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chess | acl:relcl |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 taking | mark |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 win | advcl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 pieces | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pieces | det |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 taking | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckons | punct |
| 14 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 3 reckons | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | my mate | chess | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | win | present | u | chess not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | u not said here | all pieces | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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.
The options
Option 1
Yes, and the queen must go first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 go | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 go | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | must | the queen | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Yes, the last piece left wins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 piece | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 piece | amod |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wins | amod |
| 7 | wins | win | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 piece | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
You win by reaching the far row
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 win | nsubj |
| 2 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 4 reaching | mark |
| 4 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 win | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 row | det |
| 6 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 row | amod |
| 7 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaching | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | You | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reach | gerund | You not said here | the far row | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent row=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, you win by checkmate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 win | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 win | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 win | nsubj |
| 4 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 checkmate | case |
| 6 | checkmate | checkmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 win | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | you | by checkmate | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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