Test 13 · ★ · Covering up, false alarms and playing fair

kid at footy fell over on purpose to get a free kick, allowed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: fall over, get, allow · To what, where: purpose, free kick

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 277 «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» 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	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 footy	case
3	footy	footy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kid	nmod
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 purpose	case
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fell	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 kick	det
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kick	amod
12	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 allowed	punct
14	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 get	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall over	past	kid at footy		purpose	over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location
2	get	to-infinitive	kid at footy not said here	a free kick			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kick=Stimulus
3	allow	participle	kid at footy not said here				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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

Yes, if the ref doesn't notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 notice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 notice	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ref	det
5	ref	ref	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 notice	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 notice	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 notice	advmod
8	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	present · do-support	the ref						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Yes, it's a clever part of the game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 part	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 part	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 part	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 part	det
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 part	amod
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 game	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 game	det
10	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a clever part				of the game	tree rules

Option 3

Only when the score is level

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 level	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 level	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 score	det
4	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 level	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 level	cop
6	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the score	level					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, that's diving and it's cheating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 diving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 diving	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 diving	det
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 diving	cop
5	diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cheating	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cheating	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cheating	cop
9	cheating	cheating	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 diving	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		that diving and cheating					tree rules
2	is a	present	it	cheating					tree rules

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