Exam question 1 · Soccer, American football and baseball

Identify the meaning of a yellow card in soccer.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, mean · To what, where: meaning, yellow card

This is exam question 1 of lesson 248 «Soccer, American football and baseball» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 card	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 card	det
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 card	amod
7	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 soccer	case
9	soccer	soccer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 card	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of a yellow card in soccer					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme
2	mean			a yellow card in soccer					nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

It is a warning to the player

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 warning	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warning	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 warning	det
4	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 player	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 player	det
7	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a warning				to the player	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It means the player is sent 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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 player	det
4	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	aux:pass
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 sent	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	send off	present · passive		the player					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

It awards a goal to the other side

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 awards	nsubj
2	awards	award	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 goal	det
4	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 awards	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 side	amod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 awards	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	award	present	It	a goal				to the other side goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent goal=Theme to side=Goal

Option 4

It signals the end of the match

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 signals	nsubj
2	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signals	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 match	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 match	det
7	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod

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

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