Test 3 · ★ · Soccer, American football and baseball
A batter has four balls thrown outside the strike zone. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: batter · What happens: have, throw, happen · To what, where: four balls, strike zone
This is test 3 · ★ 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 batter has four balls thrown outside the strike zone.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 batter | det |
| 2 | batter | batter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 balls | nummod |
| 5 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 balls | acl |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 10 zone | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 zone | det |
| 9 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 zone | compound |
| 10 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thrown | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a batter | four balls | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient | ||||
| 2 | throw | participle | four balls not said here | the strike zone | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent outside zone=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: What happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
He is out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 out | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 out | cop |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | out property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He walks to first base
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walks | nsubj |
| 2 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 base | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 base | amod |
| 5 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walks | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | He | to first base result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to base=Result |
Option 3
He bats again from zero
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bats | nsubj |
| 2 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 bats | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 zero | case |
| 5 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 bats | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
His team gets a run
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 team | nmod:poss |
| 2 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 run | det |
| 5 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | His team | a run | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer run=Stimulus |
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