Test 11 · ★ · Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion ga…

losing at dice, it's not fair im smarter

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dice · What happens: lose, not be · To what, where: dice

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 327 «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» 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	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fair	advcl
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 dice	case
3	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 losing	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 losing	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fair	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fair	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fair	advmod
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	im	im	ADV	_	8 fair	advmod
10	smarter	smart	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 fair	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund	dice not said here			dice			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at dice=Eventuality
2	not is	present	dice					fair, smart property	tree rules

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

Quit and sulk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sulk	cc
3	sulk	sulk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Quit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quit	imperative	you not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sulk	infinitive	you not said here						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Take the dice home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dice	det
3	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the dice				home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dice=Theme

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

Dice is luck; don't blame others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 luck	compound
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 luck	cop
3	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 blame	punct
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 blame	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 blame	advmod
7	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 luck	acl:relcl
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blame	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Dice luck					tree rules
2	not blame	infinitive · do-support	Dice luck not said here	others					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme

Option 4

Cheat to win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheat	cheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 win	mark
3	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Cheat	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	to-infinitive							vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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