Test 10 · ★ · Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear

cant do the kick right, so annoying, gonna quit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cant · What happens: do · To what, where: kick

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 305 «Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear» 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	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kick	det
4	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 do	obj
5	right	right	ADV	_	2 do	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 annoying	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 annoying	advmod
8	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 do	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gonna	punct
10	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 annoying	parataxis
11	quit	quit	X	Foreign=Yes	10 gonna	flat:foreign

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	cant	the kick				right property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Eventuality

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

Quit, some people just can't learn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quit	Quit	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Quit	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Quit	nmod
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 learn	advmod
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 learn	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 learn	advmod
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 people	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can	some people not said here						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only practise when the coach is watching, coz there's no point otherwise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 practise	advmod
2	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 watching	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coach	det
5	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watching	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 watching	aux
7	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 practise	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 's	punct
9	coz	because	SCONJ	_	11 's	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 's	expl
11	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 practise	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 point	det
13	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 's	nsubj
14	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	11 's	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	practise	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	watch	present · progressive	the coach			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	be	present	no point	there	otherwise property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Break it into small steps and practise one at a time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Break	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 steps	case
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 steps	amod
5	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Break	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 practise	cc
7	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Break	conj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 practise	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 practise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	imperative	you not said here	it				into small steps result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into step=Result
2	practise	infinitive	you not said here	one			time		tree rules

Option 4

Do the whole kick 100 times angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kick	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kick	amod
4	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obj
5	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 angry	obl:unmarked
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	the whole kick				angry obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Eventuality

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