Test 3 · ★ · Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or so…
A boy in Melbourne says «Let's watch the footy». What might he mean?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, 's · What happens: say, let, watch, mean · To what, where: 's, footy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A boy in Melbourne says «Let's watch the footy».
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 says | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Melbourne | case |
| 4 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 7 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 8 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Let | obj |
| 9 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Let | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 footy | det |
| 11 | footy | footy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watch | obj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a boy in Melbourne | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | 's | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | watch in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | the footy | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footy=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: What might he mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | might | boy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
Cricket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Basketball
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basketball | basketball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Australian rules football
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 | 3 football | compound |
| 3 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
American baseball on the big screen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 baseball | amod |
| 2 | baseball | baseball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 screen | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 screen | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 screen | amod |
| 6 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 baseball | nmod |
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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