Test 15 · ★ · Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming

Why do rugby players learn to tackle the right way?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: rugby players · What happens: learn, tackle · To what, where: right way

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 249 «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» 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 learn	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 learn	aux
3	rugby	rugby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 players	compound
4	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learn	nsubj
5	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tackle	mark
7	tackle	tackle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learn	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tackle	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 learn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present · do-support	rugby players						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tackle	to-infinitive	rugby players not said here	the right way					vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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.

The options

Option 1

The ball is safer when it is tackled properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 safer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safer	cop
4	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 tackled	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tackled	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tackled	aux:pass
8	tackled	tackle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 safer	advcl
9	properly	properly	ADV	_	8 tackled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ball					safe property	tree rules
2	tackle	present · passive		ball				properly property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bad tackles can hurt necks and heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tackles	amod
2	tackles	tackle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurt	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurt	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 heads	cc
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 necks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	can	Bad tackles	necks and heads					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient

Option 3

It makes the game slower

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 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the game				slow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material game=Product

Option 4

It looks nicer for the crowd

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 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 looks	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 crowd	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crowd	det
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It					nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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