Test 5 · ★ · Sharing toys and playing board games fairly
A player in checkers can jump an opponent's piece but does not want to. In standard rules, what is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: player · What happens: jump, not want, be · To what, where: piece, standard rules
This is test 5 · ★ 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 player in checkers can jump an opponent's piece but does not want to.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 player | det |
| 2 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jump | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 checkers | case |
| 4 | checkers | checker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 player | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 jump | aux |
| 6 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 opponent | det |
| 8 | opponent | opponent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piece | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 opponent | case |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jump | obj |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 want | cc |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 want | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 want | advmod |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 jump | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 want | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jump | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | can | a player in checkers | a opponent's piece | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme piece=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not want | present · do-support | a player in checkers not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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: In standard rules, what is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 rules | case |
| 2 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rules | amod |
| 3 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 true | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rules | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 true | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 true | cop |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | standard rules | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He can choose to skip the jump
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 | 3 choose | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 choose | aux |
| 3 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 skip | mark |
| 5 | skip | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 choose | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jump | det |
| 7 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skip | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | can | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | skip | to-infinitive | He not said here | the jump | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Agent |
Option 2
Jumping is never allowed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jumping | jumping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | Jumping | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He must jump when he can
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 | 3 jump | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 jump | aux |
| 3 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 can | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 can | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 jump | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | must | He | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
He gets an extra turn instead
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 | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 turn | det |
| 4 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 turn | amod |
| 5 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obj |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 2 gets | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | He | a extra turn | instead property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turn=Stimulus |
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