Test 5 · ★★ · Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes
A boy plays tennis in his big brother's trainers, which are two sizes too big. What can happen?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, trainers · What happens: play, be, happen · To what, where: tennis, trainers, two sizes
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 252 «Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes» 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 plays tennis in his big brother's trainers, which are two sizes too big.
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 | 3 plays | nsubj |
| 3 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tennis | tennis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plays | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 trainers | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trainers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 10 | trainers | trainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 plays | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sizes | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 sizes | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sizes | cop |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 sizes | nummod |
| 15 | sizes | size | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trainers | nmod |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 big | advmod |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sizes | amod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | a boy | tennis | boy's big brother's trainers | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tennis=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | boy's big brother's trainers | two sizes | tree rules |
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: What can happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | can | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
His feet will soon grow to fit them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 feet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 grow | aux |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 grow | advmod |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fit | mark |
| 7 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grow | xcomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | future | His feet | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fit | to-infinitive | His feet not said here | feet = foot | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
Option 2
Nothing at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
He will run faster with longer steps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 run | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 steps | case |
| 6 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 steps | amod |
| 7 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 run | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | future | He | with longer steps; fast property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with step=Material |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He may slip, trip or twist his ankle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slip | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 slip | aux |
| 3 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trip | punct |
| 5 | trip | trip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 slip | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 twist | cc |
| 7 | twist | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 slip | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ankle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ankle | ankle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 twist | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | may | He | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | trip | infinitive | He not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | twist | infinitive | He not said here | his ankle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ankle=Theme |
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