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Test 3 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

In Melbourne, Josh and Kai keep arguing about who goes first in a game. What is a quick fair way to decide?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: keep, argue, go, be, decide · To what, where: Melbourne, game, quick fair way

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In Melbourne, Josh and Kai keep arguing about who goes first in a game.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Melbourne	case
2	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Josh	punct
4	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Melbourne	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Kai	cc
6	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Josh	conj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	11 goes	mark
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 goes	nsubj
11	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 arguing	advcl
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 goes	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 game	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 game	det
15	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 goes	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present				Melbourne and Josh and Kai			tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	gerund							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	present				a game		first property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in game=Location

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 is a quick fair way to decide?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 decide	mark
8	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a quick fair way					tree rules
2	decide	to-infinitive							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Whoever shouts the loudest and first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 shouts	nsubj
2	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 loudest	det
4	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 shouts	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 first	cc
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 shouts	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Whoever	the loudest					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loud=Topic

Option 2

The bigger boy goes first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the bigger boy					first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The one who owns the ball always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 owns	nsubj
4	owns	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owns	obj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 owns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	present	the one	the ball				always property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ball=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Rock, paper, scissors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 paper	punct
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rock	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scissors	punct
5	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rock	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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