Test 13 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

we keep arguing about the rules of the game

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, game · What happens: keep, argue, rule

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 257 «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keep	xcomp
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 rules	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rules	det
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 arguing	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 game	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 game	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rules	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	present	we		tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	gerund	we not said here	about the rules of the game	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about rule=Topic
3	rule		the game		nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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

The biggest kid decides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kid	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 kid	amod
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 decides	nsubj
4	decides	decide	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	decide	present	the biggest kid						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Change the rules each turn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rules	det
3	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Change	obj
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 turn	det
5	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	imperative	you not said here	the rules					tree rules

Option 3

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 4 · ✓ the right answer

Agree the rules before you start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rules	det
3	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Agree	obj
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 start	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 start	nsubj
6	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Agree	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	imperative	you not said here	the rules					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent rule=Topic
2	start	present	you						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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