Test 10 · Cheating in games and sports
Ben lost his race but ran it honestly. What did he gain?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben · What happens: lose, run, race, gain · To what, where: race
This is test 10 of lesson 341 «Cheating in games and sports» 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: Ben lost his race but ran it honestly.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 race | nmod:poss |
| 4 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 ran | cc |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lost | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ran | obj |
| 8 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 6 ran | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lost | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Ben | Ben's race | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Ben not said here | race | honestly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | race | Ben | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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.
Sentence 2: What did he gain?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 gain | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gain | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gain | nsubj |
| 4 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 gain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past · do-support | Ben | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
His team's trust and his own pride
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 team | nmod:poss |
| 2 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trust | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 team | case |
| 4 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pride | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pride | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pride | amod |
| 8 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trust | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | His team | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 2 | pride | his = he | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
Nothing at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A gold medal for trying so hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 medal | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 medal | compound |
| 3 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 trying | mark |
| 5 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 medal | acl |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 hard | advmod |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 trying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | gerund | a gold medal not said here | hard property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
A day off school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 school | case |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | 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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