Test 20 · ★ · Safe toys and fair board games

kids say the boy who lost Monopoly every game is "a loser, rubbish at everything". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids, boy · What happens: say, lose, be, pass on · To what, where: Monopoly, loser, game · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 20 · ★ 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 loser	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lost	nsubj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	acl:relcl
7	Monopoly	Monopoly	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 game	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 loser	cop
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 loser	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 loser	det
13	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rubbish	punct
15	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 loser	appos
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 everything	case
17	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 rubbish	nmod
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 rubbish	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pass	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	20 pass	compound:prt
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	lose	past	the boy	Monopoly	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	the boy	a loser	tree rules
4	pass on	infinitive		game	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, it's true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 true	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 true	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, luck decides chance games; don't spread it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 decides	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 decides	nsubj
4	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 spread	advcl
5	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 games	compound
6	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 decides	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 decides	punct
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 spread	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 spread	advmod
10	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spread	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	luck	chance games					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent game=Topic
2	not spread	imperative · do-support	you not said here	luck					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 3

Yes, he's a loser

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 loser	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loser	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loser	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 loser	det
6	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, and leave him out of the game next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 leave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 leave	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 leave	cc
4	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 game	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 game	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 game	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obl
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the game	time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out game=Location

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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