Test 18 · ★ · Puzzles, money and video games

my mate says if u play games with flashing lights everyone gets fits. probably exaggerated?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, u, everyone · What happens: say, play, get, exaggerate · To what, where: games, fits · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 243 «Puzzles, money and video games» 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 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 play	mark
5	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 play	nsubj
6	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 play	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 lights	case
9	flashing	flashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lights	compound
10	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 play	obl
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 gets	nsubj
12	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lights	acl:relcl
13	fits	fit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gets	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
15	probably	probably	ADV	_	16 exaggerated	advmod
16	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	play a condition, not said to happen	present	u	games	with flashing lights	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with light=Co-Agent
3	get	present	everyone	fits		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fit=Stimulus
4	exaggerate	participle			probably property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

No, flashing lights never affect anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 flashing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flashing	punct
3	flashing	flash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lights	amod
4	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 affect	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 affect	advmod
6	affect	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 affect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flash	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not affect	present	flashing lights	anyone					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer

Option 2

Yes, every player gets a seizure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 player	det
4	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	nsubj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 seizure	det
7	seizure	seizure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	every player	a seizure					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seizure=Stimulus

Option 3

Yes, but only adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 adults	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 adults	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 adults	advmod
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Everyone is stretched; a few people do, so stop if bothered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 stretched	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stretched	aux:pass
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 people	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stretched	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 stop	advmod
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stretched	conj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 bothered	mark
13	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stretch	present · passive		Everyone	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	do	present	a few people		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop	infinitive			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	bother a condition, not said to happen	participle			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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