Exam question 4 · Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or so…

State the meaning of «football» in the United States and Canada.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, mean · To what, where: meaning, football

This is exam question 4 of lesson 328 «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 football	case
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 football	punct
6	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 football	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 States	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 States	det
10	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 States	amod
11	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 football	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Canada	cc
13	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 States	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of football in the United States and Canada					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	mean			football in the United States and Canada					nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

Rugby union

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rugby	Rugby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 union	compound
2	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Soccer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soccer	soccer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

American football

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 football	amod
2	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Australian rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rules	amod
2	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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