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Test 8 · ★ · Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear

A boy cannot do a handstand and keeps falling. Which is the best next step?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: not do, keep, fall, be · To what, where: handstand, best next step

This is test 8 · ★ 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: A boy cannot do a handstand and keeps falling.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 handstand	det
7	handstand	handstand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 keeps	cc
9	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 do	conj
10	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keeps	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	can	a boy	a handstand					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handstand=Eventuality
2	keep	present	a boy not said here						tree rules
3	fall	gerund	a boy not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Which is the best next step?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 step	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 step	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 step	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 step	amod
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 step	amod
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 step	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best next step					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Try once a month and hope it works

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Try	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 month	det
4	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 once	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hope	cc
6	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 works	nsubj
8	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hope	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here					once property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	hope	present	you not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	work	present	it						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Try only on hard ground so he learns quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 ground	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ground	amod
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Try	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 learns	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 learns	nsubj
8	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	parataxis
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	8 learns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	hard ground					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Eventuality
2	learn	present	he					quickly property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Give up, because handstands are only for gymnasts who started as babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Give	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gymnasts	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 gymnasts	mark
5	handstands	handstand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gymnasts	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gymnasts	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 gymnasts	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 gymnasts	case
9	gymnasts	gymnast	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 started	nsubj
11	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gymnasts	acl:relcl
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 babies	case
13	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 started	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	imperative	you not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	handstands					for gymnasts	tree rules
3	start	past	gymnasts					as babies	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Practise kicking up against a wall a little each day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practise	practise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	kicking	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Practise	acl
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 kicking	compound:prt
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicking	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kicking	obl
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick up	gerund	Practise not said here	a little			day	against a wall	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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