Test 16 · ★ · Running games and the playground

Why are so many crashes in tag about running backwards?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tag · What happens: be, run · To what, where: many crashes, tag

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 247 «Running games and the playground» 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	5 crashes	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 crashes	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crashes	amod
5	crashes	crash	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 tag	case
7	tag	tag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crashes	nmod
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 running	mark
9	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 tag	acl
10	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	9 running	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 crashes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		many crashes		tag			tree rules
2	run	gerund	tag not said here					backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Poles move about in the playground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 move	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 playground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 playground	det
6	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move about	present	Poles			the playground		about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in playground=Trajectory

Option 2

Tag is only really safe when everyone runs backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tag	tag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 safe	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 safe	advmod
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 runs	advmod
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 runs	nsubj
8	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	advcl
9	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	8 runs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tag					safe property	tree rules
2	run	present	everyone					backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Running backwards is always much slower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 slower	csubj
2	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	1 Running	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slower	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 slower	advmod
6	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund						backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Running					slow property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You can't see what's behind you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 see	ccomp
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	You					behind you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present							tree rules

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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