Test 9 · ★ · Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or so…

Why does a coach want to know beforehand that a player will be away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: player · What happens: want, know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coach	det
4	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
8	beforehand	beforehand	SCONJ	_	14 away	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 away	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 player	det
11	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 away	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 away	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 away	cop
14	away	away	ADV	_	7 know	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	future	a player	away 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 · ← Mova's choice

To choose a new captain every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 choose	mark
2	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 captain	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 captain	amod
5	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 choose	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 choose	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	to-infinitive		a new captain			time		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Theme

Option 2

To give the player extra homework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 player	det
4	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
5	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 homework	amod
6	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		the player					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent player=Recipient homework=Theme

Option 3

To tell the other players off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 players	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 players	amod
5	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	obj
6	off	off	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the other players				off property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent player=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To plan the team around who is there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 plan	mark
2	plan	plan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 is	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 team	det
4	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plan	obj
5	around	around	ADP	_	7 is	mark
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 is	nsubj
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 is	expl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	to-infinitive		the team					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=Topic
2	be	present				there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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