Test 7 · ★ · Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games

What does a timer do for two siblings sharing a console?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: timer, two siblings · What happens: do, share · To what, where: console

This is test 7 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 timer	det
4	timer	timer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 siblings	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 siblings	nummod
8	siblings	sibling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obl
9	sharing	share	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 siblings	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 console	det
11	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sharing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	a timer					for two siblings	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	share	gerund	two siblings not said here	a console					tree rules

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 stops the console from overheating when it's played for a long time

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	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 console	det
4	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 overheating	mark
6	overheating	overheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stops	advcl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 played	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 played	nsubj:pass
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 played	aux
10	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 overheating	acl
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	stop	present	It	the console		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality console=Eventuality
2	overheat	gerund				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	play	present · passive		console	time	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It makes the turns fair, so nobody needs to argue

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 turns	det
4	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 needs	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 needs	advmod
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 needs	nsubj
9	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 argue	mark
11	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 needs	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the turns	fair property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material turn=Product
2	need	present	nobody			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	argue speech: disagree not said to happen	to-infinitive	nobody not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It lets both play at the same time

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	2 lets	nsubj
2	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 play	nsubj
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lets	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	It						tree rules
2	play	infinitive	both				time		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It makes the games load faster

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 games	det
4	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 load	nsubj
5	load	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It					fast property	tree rules
2	load	present	the games						vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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