Test 8 · ★ · Routines, screen time and earning money

Why is it hard to stop after "just one more level"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, stop

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 264 «Routines, screen time and earning money» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hard	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hard	expl
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	xcomp
7	after	after	ADP	_	12 level	case
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 level	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 level	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 level	nummod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 level	amod
12	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						hard property	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive					after one more level		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Games are designed to keep you playing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 designed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 designed	aux:pass
3	designed	design	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 designed	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 keep	obj
7	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	design	present · passive		Games	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	keep	to-infinitive		you	tree rules
3	play	gerund	you not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The game is always nearly finished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finished	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	aux:pass
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 finished	advmod
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 finished	advmod
6	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	present · passive		the game				always, nearly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

Levels are too easy to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Levels	level	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 easy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 easy	advmod
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 easy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Levels					easy property	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	Levels not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

The timer on the game is usually wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 timer	det
2	timer	timer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrong	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 game	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 game	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 timer	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wrong	cop
7	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 wrong	advmod
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the timer on the game					usually, wrong property	tree rules

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