Test 2 · ★ · Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming
A boy in Brisbane tackles another player around the neck. Why is this dangerous?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, this · What happens: tackle, be · To what, where: player, neck
This is test 2 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A boy in Brisbane tackles another player around the neck.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tackles | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Brisbane | case |
| 4 | Brisbane | Brisbane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | tackles | tackle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 player | det |
| 7 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tackles | obj |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 neck | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 neck | det |
| 10 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 player | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tackles | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tackle | present | a boy in Brisbane | another player | the neck | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=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.
Sentence 2: Why is this dangerous?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dangerous | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dangerous | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dangerous | nsubj |
| 4 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dangerous | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | dangerous property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It is far too slow to stop anyone
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 | 5 slow | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 slow | cop |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 slow | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 slow | advmod |
| 5 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stop | mark |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 slow | xcomp |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 stop | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | far, slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive | anyone | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality anyone=Eventuality |
Option 2
It is fine as long as the referee is not looking
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 fine | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 fine | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 looking | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 referee | det |
| 8 | referee | referee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 looking | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 looking | advmod |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 long | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fine, long property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not look | present · progressive | the referee | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It makes the ball fly away
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 ball | det |
| 4 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 fly | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | the ball | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly away | present | the ball not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
High tackles cause head and neck injuries
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tackles | amod |
| 2 | tackles | tackle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cause | nsubj |
| 3 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 injuries | compound |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 neck | cc |
| 6 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | conj |
| 7 | injuries | injury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cause | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | High tackles | head injuries | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=Patient |
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