Test 4 · ★ · Soccer, American football and baseball
The referee shows a player a yellow card, and he keeps shouting at her. What may happen next?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: referee · What happens: show, keep, shout, happen · To what, where: player
This is test 4 · ★ 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: The referee shows a player a yellow card, and he keeps shouting at her.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 referee | det |
| 2 | referee | referee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 player | det |
| 5 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 card | det |
| 7 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 card | amod |
| 8 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keeps | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 keeps | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 keeps | nsubj |
| 12 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shows | conj |
| 13 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 keeps | xcomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shouting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the referee | a player | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent player=Recipient card=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | referee | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | gerund | referee not said here | at her = she | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 may happen next?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 happen | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | may | next property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
He wins a free kick for his team
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 wins | nsubj |
| 2 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kick | det |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kick | amod |
| 5 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wins | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 team | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 team | nmod:poss |
| 8 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wins | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | He | a free kick | for his team | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent kick=Theme for team=Beneficiary |
Option 2
The referee must apologise to him in front of everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 referee | det |
| 2 | referee | referee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apologise | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 apologise | aux |
| 4 | apologise | apologise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 apologise | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apologise | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 everyone | case |
| 10 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 front | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apologise speech: apologize | must | the referee | him = he | front of everyone | tree rules |
Option 3
Nothing, because shouting at referees is allowed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shouting | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 shouting | mark |
| 4 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 referees | case |
| 6 | referees | referee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shouting | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 allowed | aux:pass |
| 8 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | gerund | referees | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | allow | present · passive | Nothing | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A second yellow, which means a red card
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 yellow | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 yellow | amod |
| 3 | yellow | yellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 card | det |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 card | amod |
| 9 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a second yellow | a red card | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Topic |
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