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Test 1 · ★ · Younger children, losing and practising

A girl in Wales was picked last for rounders (a bat-and-ball game) again and felt sad. Which is a good step?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bat · What happens: pick, game, feel, be · To what, where: girl, good step

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 251 «Younger children, losing and practising» 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 girl in Wales was picked last for rounders (a bat-and-ball game) again and felt sad.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picked	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Wales	case
4	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	aux:pass
6	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 picked	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 rounders	case
9	rounders	rounder	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 picked	obl
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 game	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 game	det
12	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 game	nsubj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 game	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 game	cc
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 and	punct
16	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 game	compound
17	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rounders	appos
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 game	punct
19	again	again	ADV	_	6 picked	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 felt	cc
21	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	conj
22	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 felt	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 picked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past · passive		a girl in Wales			again	for rounders; last property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for rounder=Beneficiary
2	game		bat						tree rules
3	feel	past						sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: Which is a good step?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 step	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 step	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 step	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 step	amod
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 step	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a good step					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Stop playing forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 playing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	play	gerund	you not said here					forever property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Say she hates rounders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hates	nsubj
3	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
4	rounders	rounder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hate	present	she	rounders					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rounder=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Talk to a teacher and keep practising

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 teacher	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talk	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keep	cc
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Talk	conj
7	practising	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here					to a teacher	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to teacher=Co-Agent
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here						tree rules
3	practise	gerund	you not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Pick them last next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	last	last	ADV	_	1 Pick	advmod
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	them = they			time	last property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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