Test 12 · ★ · Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or so…

standing right behind my mate while he serves

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: stand, serve · To what, where: mate

This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	right	right	ADV	_	5 mate	advmod
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 mate	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mate	nmod:poss
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 standing	obl
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 serves	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 serves	nsubj
8	serves	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 standing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund				my mate			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind mate=Location
2	serve	present	he						vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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.

The options

Option 1

Stand on his side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 side	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 side	nmod:poss
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			his side			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stand well back from the racket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Stand	advmod
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Stand	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 racket	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 racket	det
6	racket	racket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand back	imperative	you not said here			the racket		well property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Stand right in front

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	right	right	ADV	_	1 Stand	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			front		right property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Stand close to watch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stand	xcomp
3	to	to	PART	_	4 watch	mark
4	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 close	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here					close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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