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Test 5 · ★ · Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games

Two children at a cricket practice stand right next to a boy swinging a bat. What should they do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two children, boy, children · What happens: stand, swing, do · To what, where: bat

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 303 «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball 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

Sentence 1: Two children at a cricket practice stand right next to a boy swinging a bat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 children	nummod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stand	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 practice	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 practice	det
5	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 practice	compound
6	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 children	nmod
7	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 next	advmod
9	next	next	ADV	_	7 stand	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 boy	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 next	obl
13	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 boy	acl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bat	det
15	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swinging	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	Two children at a cricket practice					next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swing	gerund	a boy not said here	a bat					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bat=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 should they do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	children = child						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Lie down so the bat goes over them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Lie	advmod
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 goes	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bat	det
5	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Lie	advcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	imperative	you not said here					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	present	the bat					over them = they	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over they=Initial_Location

Option 2

Stand closer so they can catch the ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Stand	advmod
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 catch	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	aux
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stand	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here					close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	catch	can	they	the ball					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Move further away from the swinging bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	further	further	ADV	_	3 away	advmod
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Move	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 bat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bat	det
6	swinging	swinging	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bat	compound
7	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	imperative	you not said here			the swinging bat		away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from bat=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Keep watching from where they are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 where	case
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 watching	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 where	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	watch	gerund	you not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	they					where property	tree rules

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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