Test 8 · ★ · Soccer, American football and baseball

Why do soccer players wear shin pads even at practice?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: soccer players · What happens: wear · To what, where: shin pads, practice

This is test 8 · ★ 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	5 wear	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wear	aux
3	soccer	soccer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 players	compound
4	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wear	nsubj
5	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	shin	shin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pads	compound
7	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wear	obj
8	even	even	ADV	_	10 practice	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 practice	case
10	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wear	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present · do-support	soccer players	shin pads		practice			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pad=Source

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

Socks would just fall down round the ankles without them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 fall	compound:prt
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 ankles	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ankles	det
8	ankles	ankle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	obl
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	would	Socks			the ankles		without ankles = ankle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round ankle=Initial_Location

Option 2

They make the legs run faster

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 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 legs	det
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 run	nsubj
5	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	run	present	the legs					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Coaches like the colour of them on the team

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coaches	coach	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 colour	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Coaches	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 colour	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 team	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 team	det
9	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Coaches	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A kick to the shin can hurt or break the bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kick	det
2	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hurt	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 shin	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shin	det
5	shin	shin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kick	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	aux
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 break	cc
9	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hurt	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bone	det
11	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	can	a kick to the shin						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	break	infinitive	a kick to the shin not said here	the bone					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient

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