Test 9 · Cheating in games and sports

Which is the best thing to say when you lose a game you badly wanted to win?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, game · What happens: be, say, lose, want, win · To what, where: best thing, game · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 thing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 lose	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 lose	nsubj
10	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 game	det
12	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lose	obj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 wanted	nsubj
14	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 wanted	advmod
15	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 game	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 win	mark
17	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wanted	xcomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best thing		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lose	present	you	a game		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
4	want	past	you	a game not said here	badly property	tree rules
5	win not said to happen	to-infinitive	a game not said here			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

«This game's rubbish»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 rubbish	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rubbish	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 game	case
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 rubbish	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

«That doesn't count»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 count	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 count	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 count	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 count	advmod
5	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not count in a quote	present · do-support	That						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

«You cheated, I saw you!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 cheated	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 cheated	nsubj
3	cheated	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheated	conj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 cheated	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 cheated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat in a quote	past	You						vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	see in a quote	past	I	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

«Well played, can we have another go?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
2	Well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 played	advmod
3	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 have	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 played	punct
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 have	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play in a quote	participle	we not said here		well property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have in a quote	can	we	another		tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	another not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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