Test 8 · ★ · Jake, always in bruises
«everyone picks Jake first so he must be the best player». What else could be true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, Jake · What happens: pick, be · To what, where: Jake, best player
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 372 «Jake, always in bruises» 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: «everyone picks Jake first so he must be the best player».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 picks | punct |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 picks | nsubj |
| 3 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 picks | obj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 picks | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 12 player | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 player | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 player | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 player | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 player | det |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 player | amod |
| 12 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picks | advcl |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 player | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick in a quote | present | everyone | Jake | first property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jake=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | must | Jake | the best player | 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.
Sentence 2: What else could be true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 true | nsubj |
| 2 | else | else | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 true | cop |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
They are all his cousins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cousins | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cousins | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 cousins | advmod |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cousins | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | They | his cousins | all property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
They might be scared not to pick him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scared | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 scared | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 scared | cop |
| 4 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 pick | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pick | mark |
| 7 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 scared | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pick | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | might | They | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not pick | to-infinitive | They not said here | him = he | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
He pays them to pick him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pays | nsubj |
| 2 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pays | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pick | mark |
| 5 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pays | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pick | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | He | them = they | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset | ||||
| 2 | pick | to-infinitive | He not said here | him = he | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 4
He is the only one in the class who has proper football boots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 class | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 class | det |
| 8 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | parataxis |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boots | amod |
| 12 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boots | compound |
| 13 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | He | the only one | the class | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | the only one | proper football boots | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient |
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