Test 2 · ★ · Soccer, American football and baseball
A boy in Manchester and a boy in Boston both say "I play football on Saturdays". What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: say, play, be · To what, where: football · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 248 «Soccer, American football and baseball» 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: A boy in Manchester and a boy in Boston both say "I play football on Saturdays".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Manchester | case |
| 4 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 boy | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Boston | case |
| 9 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 boy | nmod |
| 10 | both | both | ADV | _ | 11 say | advmod |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 play | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 play | nsubj |
| 14 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | ccomp |
| 15 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 play | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Saturdays | case |
| 17 | Saturdays | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 play | obl |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 play | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a boy in Manchester and a boy in Boston | both property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | play in a quote | present | a boy in Manchester and a boy in Boston = boy | football | saturday | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=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.
Sentence 2: What is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They probably play different games
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 play | nsubj |
| 2 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 3 play | advmod |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 games | amod |
| 5 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 play | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | They | different games | probably property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
Option 2
Neither plays a team sport
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 plays | nsubj |
| 2 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sport | det |
| 4 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sport | compound |
| 5 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | Neither | a team sport | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Theme |
Option 3
They play the same game
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 play | nsubj |
| 2 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 game | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 game | amod |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 play | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | They | the same game | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
Option 4
Football means rugby in both places
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rugby | rugby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 places | case |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 places | det |
| 6 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 means | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Football | rugby | in both places | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot rugby=Theme in place=Attribute |
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