Test 14 · ★ · Safe toys and fair board games

lost at snakes n ladders, my mate says i played bad

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, i · What happens: lose, say, play · To what, where: ladders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 302 «Safe toys and fair board games» 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	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 says	advcl
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 ladders	case
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ladders	nmod:poss
4	n	n	PART	_	3 snakes	case
5	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 lost	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mate	nmod:poss
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 played	nsubj
11	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 says	ccomp
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 played	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lose	participle	my mate not said here	snakes's ladders		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at ladder=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	play	past	i		bad property	vn performance-26.7-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's because you went second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 went	cop
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 went	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's luck, nobody's to blame for losing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 luck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 luck	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 luck	cop
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 blame	punct
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 blame	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 blame	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 blame	mark
10	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 luck	acl:relcl
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 losing	mark
12	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 blame	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	luck		tree rules
2	is	present	nobody		blame property	tree rules
3	lose	gerund	nobody not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, it's all about skill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 skill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 skill	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 skill	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 skill	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 skill	case
7	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					about skill; all property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, you should have rolled better and thought more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 rolled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 rolled	nsubj:pass
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 rolled	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 rolled	aux
6	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thought	advcl
7	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 rolled	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 thought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	should · perfect · passive		you				well property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent
2	think speech: other	past		more					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme

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