Test 8 · ★ · Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play
Your friend keeps winning card games by peeking at your cards. What is likely to happen?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: keep, win, peek, be, happen · To what, where: card games
This is test 8 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Your friend keeps winning card games by peeking at your cards.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keeps | xcomp |
| 5 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 games | compound |
| 6 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 winning | obj |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 peeking | mark |
| 8 | peeking | peek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 winning | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 cards | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cards | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 peeking | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Your friend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | win | gerund | Your friend not said here | card games | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | peek | gerund | Your friend not said here | at your cards | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at card=Theme |
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 likely to happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 likely | cop |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 happen | mark |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 likely | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
He will become a famous player
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 become | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | aux |
| 3 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 player | det |
| 5 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 player | amod |
| 6 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 become | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | future | He | a famous player | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Everyone will want to play with him even more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 want | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | aux |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 play | mark |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 play | obl |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 play | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | future | Everyone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | Everyone not said here | with him = he | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
Option 3
The game will get fairer
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 | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | the game | fair property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
People will stop wanting to play with him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | aux |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | wanting | want | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stop | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 play | mark |
| 6 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanting | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 play | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | future | People | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | want | gerund | People not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | People not said here | with him = he | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
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