Test 7 · ★ · Soccer, American football and baseball

Why should a young football player learn to tackle with the head up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: young football player · What happens: learn, tackle up

This is test 7 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 learn	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 learn	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 player	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 player	amod
5	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 player	compound
6	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learn	nsubj
7	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tackle	mark
9	tackle	tackle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 learn	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 head	det
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tackle	obl
13	up	up	ADP	_	9 tackle	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 learn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	should	a young football player						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tackle up	to-infinitive	a young football player not said here					with the head	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with head=Instrument

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

It is easier to see the cheerleaders at the side of the field

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	3 easier	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easier	cop
3	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easier	csubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cheerleaders	det
7	cheerleaders	cheerleader	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 side	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 side	det
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 field	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 field	det
13	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 side	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						easy property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		the cheerleaders		the side of the field			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cheerleader=Stimulus

Option 2

The helmet falls off otherwise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 helmet	det
2	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	nsubj
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 falls	compound:prt
5	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	3 falls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	present	the helmet					otherwise property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tackling with the head down can injure the neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tackling	tackle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 injure	nsubj
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 head	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 head	det
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tackling	obl
5	down	down	ADV	_	1 Tackling	advmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 injure	aux
7	injure	injure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 neck	det
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 injure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tackle	gerund						with the head; down property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with head=Instrument
2	injure	can		the neck					tree rules

Option 4

It makes the tackle count double in the score

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tackle	det
4	tackle	tackle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 count	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 score	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 score	det
9	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the tackle					tree rules
2	count	infinitive	the tackle not said here	double		the score			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent double=Theme

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