Test 3 · ★ · Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear
The coach plans a practice match with exactly ten players, and one player does not come and does not say so. What is the problem?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coach, one player, problem · What happens: plan, not come, not say, be · To what, where: practice match · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: The coach plans a practice match with exactly ten players, and one player does not come and does not say so.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coach | det |
| 2 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plans | nsubj |
| 3 | plans | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 match | det |
| 5 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 match | compound |
| 6 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plans | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 players | case |
| 8 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 9 ten | advmod |
| 9 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 players | nummod |
| 10 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 match | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 player | nummod |
| 14 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 come | advmod |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 plans | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 say | cc |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 say | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 say | advmod |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | conj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 say | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plans | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | present | the coach | a practice match | with ten players | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Topic | |||
| 2 | not come | present · do-support | one player | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | present · do-support | one player not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: What is the problem?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the problem | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The coach will now have to put on gloves and play in goal himself for the rest of the season
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coach | det |
| 2 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 gloves | case |
| 9 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 play | cc |
| 11 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gloves | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 goal | case |
| 13 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 put | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 rest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rest | det |
| 17 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 season | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 season | det |
| 20 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rest | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | the coach | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | the coach not said here | coach | gloves and play | in goal; for the rest of the season | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on glove=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The coach planned around him and now the teams are wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coach | det |
| 2 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 planned | nsubj |
| 3 | planned | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 planned | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wrong | cc |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 wrong | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 teams | det |
| 9 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wrong | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wrong | cop |
| 11 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 planned | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | past | the coach | around him = he | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the teams | now | wrong property | tree rules |
Option 3
Nothing, coaches never plan who comes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 coaches | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | coaches | coach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 plan | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 plan | advmod |
| 5 | plan | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 comes | nsubj |
| 7 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 plan | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not plan | present | Nothing coaches | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | present | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
The match must be cancelled for a year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 match | det |
| 2 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cancelled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cancelled | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cancelled | aux:pass |
| 5 | cancelled | cancel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cancelled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cancel | must · passive | the match | year | tree rules |
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