Test 6 · ★ · Copying and peeking in tests
Coach, sharp: «You went down before he touched you. Yellow card.» What would put it right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, Coach · What happens: go down, touch, put · To what, where: you, card
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 340 «Copying and peeking in tests» 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: Coach, sharp: «You went down before he touched you.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sharp | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sharp | punct |
| 3 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sharp | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 touched | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 touched | nsubj |
| 11 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 touched | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sharp | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down in a quote | past | You | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | touch in a quote | past | Coach | you | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-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: Yellow card.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 card | amod |
| 2 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 card | punct |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 card | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What would put it right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 put | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | would | card | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent what=Asset it=Goal |
The options
Option 1
Argue that he did touch him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 touch | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touch | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touch | aux |
| 5 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Argue | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touch | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | imperative | you not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | touch | past · do-support | he | him = he | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme |
Option 2
Do it again, but better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Do | obj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Do | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 better | cc |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Do | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | it | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Say sorry to the other team's player
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Say | xcomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 player | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 team | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 team | amod |
| 6 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 player | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 team | case |
| 8 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sorry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: apologize | imperative | you not said here | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Blame the grass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grass | det |
| 3 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blame | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | imperative | you not said here | the grass | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests/t6/