Test 11 · ★ · Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports

goal posts are wobbly, gonna swing on the crossbar

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goal posts · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 304 «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» 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	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 posts	compound
2	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wobbly	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wobbly	cop
4	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 swing	punct
6	gonna	gonna	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 swing	amod
7	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wobbly	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 crossbar	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crossbar	det
10	crossbar	crossbar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	goal posts					wobbly property	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

Fine, they're made to hold kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Fine	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		they					tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive	they not said here	kids					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme

Option 2

Only if your mates hold it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 hold	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 hold	mark
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mates	nmod:poss
4	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	nsubj
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	your mates	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Fine if you swing gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 swing	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 swing	nsubj
4	swing	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	advcl
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 swing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	present	you					gently property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Don't, unanchored goals can fall and crush you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fall	punct
4	unanchored	unanchored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 goals	amod
5	goals	goal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fall	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fall	aux
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Do	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 crush	cc
9	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fall	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 crush	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not do	imperative	you not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	can	unanchored goals		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	crush	infinitive	unanchored goals not said here	you	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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