Test 4 · ★ · Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming

Why might a referee ask a player to remove a necklace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: referee, player · What happens: ask, remove · To what, where: player, necklace

This is test 4 · ★ 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 ask	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 referee	det
4	referee	referee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 player	det
7	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 remove	mark
9	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 necklace	det
11	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remove	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	might	a referee	a player					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent player=Recipient clause=Topic
2	remove not said to happen	to-infinitive	a player not said here	a necklace					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It can catch and hurt the player or others

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 catch	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hurt	cc
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 catch	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 player	det
7	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurt	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 others	cc
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 player	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	can	It						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	infinitive		the player or others					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer player=Patient

Option 2

Necklaces are too shiny and dazzle the referee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Necklaces	necklace	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shiny	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shiny	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 shiny	advmod
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dazzle	cc
6	dazzle	dazzle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shiny	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 referee	det
8	referee	referee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dazzle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Necklaces					shiny property	tree rules
2	dazzle	infinitive	Necklaces not said here	the referee					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus referee=Experiencer

Option 3

Necklaces slow the game down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Necklaces	necklace	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slow	nsubj
2	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 slow	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 slow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	present	Necklaces	the game				down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent game=Patient

Option 4

It is a rule about colours

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	4 rule	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rule	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rule	det
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 colours	case
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rule	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rule				about colours	tree rules

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