Test 8 · ★★ · Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes
A team checks the goalkeeper gloves, helmets and nets before the match. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: team · What happens: check · To what, where: goalkeeper gloves
This is test 8 · ★★ 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 team checks the goalkeeper gloves, helmets and nets before the match.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 team | det |
| 2 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 checks | nsubj |
| 3 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gloves | det |
| 5 | goalkeeper | goalkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gloves | compound |
| 6 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 checks | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 helmets | punct |
| 8 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gloves | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nets | cc |
| 10 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gloves | conj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 match | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 match | det |
| 13 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 checks | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 checks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | present | a team | the goalkeeper gloves and helmets and nets | before the match | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=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?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Broken gear can cause injuries
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gear | amod |
| 2 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cause | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cause | aux |
| 4 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | injuries | injury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cause | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | can | Broken gear | injuries | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=Patient |
Option 2
To make the match start later and last longer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 make | mark |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 match | det |
| 4 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 5 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 make | xcomp |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 start | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 last | cc |
| 8 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 start | conj |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 last | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | the match | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | start | infinitive | the match not said here | late property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | last | infinitive | the match not said here | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Because gear sometimes changes colour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 changes | mark |
| 2 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changes | nsubj |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 changes | advmod |
| 4 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | gear | colour | sometimes property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |
Option 4
To count how much gear the club owns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 count | mark |
| 2 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 owns | advcl |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gear | amod |
| 5 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 count | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 club | det |
| 7 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 count | obj |
| 8 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | to-infinitive | much gear | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | own | present | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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