Test 5 · ★ · Music practice and ball games
In dodgeball a boy in Glasgow throws hard at a girl's head. Why is this wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, this · What happens: throw, be · To what, where: dodgeball
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: In dodgeball a boy in Glasgow throws hard at a girl's head.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 dodgeball | case |
| 2 | dodgeball | dodgeball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throws | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throws | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Glasgow | case |
| 6 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | nmod |
| 7 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 throws | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throws | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 throws | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present | a boy in Glasgow | dodgeball | at a girl's head; hard property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in dodgeball=Destination |
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: Why is this wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 wrong | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The ball may burst
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ball | det |
| 2 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 burst | aux |
| 4 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | may | the ball | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Head hits can injure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hits | compound |
| 2 | hits | hit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 injure | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 injure | aux |
| 4 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | injure | can | Head hits | tree rules |
Option 3
It is too easy to catch
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 easy | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 easy | advmod |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 catch | mark |
| 6 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
It wastes 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 wastes | nsubj |
| 2 | wastes | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ball | det |
| 4 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wastes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste | present | It | the ball | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument ball=Patient |
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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