Test 12 · ★ · Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports

my cousin says football means soccer in america. true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, football · What happens: say, mean · To what, where: soccer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	soccer	soccer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 america	case
8	america	america	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present	football	soccer				in america	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot soccer=Theme in america=Attribute

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

No, in America it means rugby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 America	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 America	case
4	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 means	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	rugby	rugby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	rugby				in America	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot rugby=Theme in america=Attribute

Option 2

Yes, football means soccer everywhere, even in the USA and Canada

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	soccer	soccer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 means	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 USA	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 USA	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 USA	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 USA	det
11	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 means	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Canada	cc
13	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 USA	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	football	soccer				everywhere property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soccer=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, in the USA it means American football

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 USA	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 USA	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 USA	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 USA	det
5	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 means	obl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 football	amod
9	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	USA	American football				in the USA	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot football=Theme in usa=Attribute

Option 4

Yes, but only in schools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 schools	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 schools	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 schools	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 schools	case
6	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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