Test 5 · ★ · Puzzles, money and video games

Why does taking a break help after losing again and again?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: break help · What happens: take, lose · To what, where: break help

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 taking	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 taking	aux
3	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 help	det
5	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	compound
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obj
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 losing	mark
8	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 help	acl
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 losing	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 again	cc
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 again	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 taking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · do-support		a break help					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme
2	lose	gerund	a break help not said here				again		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Breaks make the game forget all your mistakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Breaks	break	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 mistakes	det:predet
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mistakes	nmod:poss
8	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	present	Breaks	the game	tree rules
2	forget	infinitive	the game not said here	your mistakes	tree rules
3	mistake		your		nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Anger makes you play worse, and rest calms you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	worse	badly	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 play	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 calms	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 calms	cc
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 calms	nsubj
9	calms	calm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 calms	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Anger	you		tree rules
2	play	infinitive	you not said here		badly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	calm	present	rest	you		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

Option 3

It does not help at all

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 help	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present · do-support	It			all			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Games give you easier levels if you stop for a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
4	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 levels	amod
5	levels	level	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 stop	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 stop	nsubj
8	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 while	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 while	det
11	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Games	easier levels	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient level=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	present	you				while		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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