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Test 8 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

A game of chase in Calgary gets so rough that children are crying. What is the right step if asking nicely does not work?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: game, children, right step · What happens: get, cry, be, ask, not work · To what, where: right step · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: A game of chase in Calgary gets so rough that children are crying.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 chase	case
4	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 game	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Calgary	case
6	Calgary	Calgary	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chase	nmod
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 rough	advmod
9	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gets	xcomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 crying	mark
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 crying	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 crying	aux
13	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 rough	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	a game of chase in Calgary					rough property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	cry speech: express	present · progressive	children						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What is the right step if asking nicely does not work?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 step	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 step	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 step	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 step	amod
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 asking	mark
7	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 step	acl
8	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	11 work	advmod
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 work	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 work	advmod
11	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asking	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 step	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the right step					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	gerund	the right step not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not work	present · do-support						nicely property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Move the game behind the shed where no teacher can see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Move	obj
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 shed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shed	det
6	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Move	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 see	advmod
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 teacher	det
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shed	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	imperative	you not said here	the game		the shed			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent game=Theme
2	see	can	no teacher						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tell the duty teacher what is happening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
3	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teacher	compound
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 happening	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 happening	aux
7	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		the duty teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	present · progressive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Laugh at those who cry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 those	case
3	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	1 Laugh	obl
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 cry	nsubj
5	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 those	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here			those			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	present							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Join in and push harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Join	join	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	1 Join	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 push	cc
4	push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Join	conj
5	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 push	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join in	imperative	you not said here						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	push	infinitive	you not said here					hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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