Test 15 · ★ · Music practice and ball games

Why does the coach make Ava wear a helmet to bat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ava · What happens: make, wear · To what, where: Ava, helmet

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 246 «Music practice and ball 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	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coach	det
4	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
7	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 helmet	det
9	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wear	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 bat	mark
11	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 helmet	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · do-support		Ava					tree rules
2	wear	infinitive	Ava not said here	a helmet					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=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

Helmets make the bat swing faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helmets	helmet	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 bat	det
4	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	swing	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 swing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Helmets	the bat					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material bat=Product
2	swing	present	Helmets not said here					fast property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

It helps her see the ball

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	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	her = she					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	see	infinitive	her = she not said here	the ball					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus

Option 3

It keeps the sun off

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	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 keeps	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep off	present	It	the sun					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A fast ball can break her face or skull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ball	det
2	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ball	amod
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 break	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 break	aux
5	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 break	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 skull	cc
9	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 face	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	can	a fast ball	her face or skull					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Patient

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