Test 18 · ★ · Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear

kids say the boy who quit swimming "is a quitter, always gives up". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, boy · What happens: say, quit, be, give up, pass on · To what, where: swimming, quitter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quitter	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 quit	nsubj
6	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	acl:relcl
7	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quit	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 swimming	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 quitter	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 quitter	det
11	quitter	quitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gives	punct
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 gives	advmod
14	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 gives	compound:prt
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 gives	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
18	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pass	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	18 pass	compound:prt
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	quit	past	the boy	swimming		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimming=Source
3	is a in a quote	present	the boy	a quitter		tree rules
4	give up in a quote	present			always property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pass on	infinitive		swimming		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, and tell his coach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coach	nmod:poss
6	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	his coach					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's unkind gossip; break hard skills into small steps instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 gossip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gossip	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gossip	cop
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gossip	amod
6	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 break	punct
8	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 skills	amod
10	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 break	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 steps	case
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 steps	amod
13	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 break	obl
14	instead	instead	ADV	_	8 break	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	unkind gossip					tree rules
2	break	infinitive	unkind gossip	hard skills				into small steps result; instead property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent skill=Patient into step=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he's a quitter, and quitters always quit everything they try

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 quitter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quitter	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quitter	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 quitter	det
6	quitter	quitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 quit	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 quit	cc
9	quitters	quitter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 quit	nsubj
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 quit	advmod
11	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quitter	conj
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 quit	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 try	nsubj
14	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a quitter		tree rules
2	quit	past	quitters	everything	always property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Source
3	try	present	they			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Yes, it's true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 true	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 true	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					true property	tree rules

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