Test 16 · ★ · Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play

mate cheats every game, nobody wants to play with him

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, nobody · What happens: cheat, want, play · To what, where: game

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 293 «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cheats	nsubj
2	cheats	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cheats	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wants	punct
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 wants	nsubj
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cheats	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 play	mark
9	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wants	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cheat	present	mate	every game		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Source
2	want	present	nobody			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	nobody not said here		with mate	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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

They're just jealous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jealous	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 jealous	advmod
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					jealous property	tree rules

Option 2

Cheating is fine if you win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheating	cheating	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 win	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 win	nsubj
6	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cheating					fine property	tree rules
2	win a condition, not said to happen	present	you						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Only cheating at cards counts, other games don't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 cheating	advmod
2	cheating	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 counts	csubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 cards	case
4	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cheating	obl
5	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 games	amod
8	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 counts	ccomp
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	cheat	gerund		cards	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	count	present	cheating		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	not do	present	other games		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cheating spoils games and loses friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheating	cheating	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoils	nsubj
2	spoils	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spoils	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 loses	cc
5	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spoils	conj
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spoil	present	Cheating	games					tree rules
2	lose	present	Cheating not said here	friends					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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