Test 10 · ★★ · Left out without a console

Teacher: «Why might a pupil say they don't like games when they don't own a console?»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pupil, they, games · What happens: say, not like, not own · To what, where: games, console · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 399 «Left out without a console» 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	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
4	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 say	advmod
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pupil	det
7	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Teacher	acl:relcl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 like	advmod
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	ccomp
13	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 like	obj
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 own	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 own	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 own	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 own	advmod
18	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 like	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 console	det
20	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 own	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: ask in a quote	might	a pupil		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not like in a quote	present · do-support	they	games	tree rules
3	not own not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	games = game	a console	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot console=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Because they've already finished every game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 finished	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 finished	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	aux
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 finished	advmod
5	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finished	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	present · perfect	they	every game					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality game=Eventuality

Option 2

Because games are bad for you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 bad	mark
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bad	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	games					for you; bad property	tree rules

Option 3

To make the teacher happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the teacher				happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset teacher=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To hide feeling left out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obj
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feeling	acl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 left	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		feeling					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient
2	leave out	participle		feeling not said here					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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