Test 10 · Fighting games at a friend's house

Teacher: «Who decides which games you play at a friend's house?»

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Teacher, you · What happens: decide, play · To what, where: games, house

This is test 10 of lesson 401 «Fighting games at a friend's house» 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	5 decides	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 decides	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 decides	punct
4	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 decides	nsubj
5	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 games	det
7	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 decides	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 play	nsubj
9	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 games	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	14 house	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 friend	det
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 friend	case
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 play	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 games	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 decides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide in a quote	present	Teacher	which games					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent game=Topic
2	play in a quote	present	you	which games not said here		a friend's house			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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 · ✓ the right answer

Your own parents, even when you're away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 parents	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parents	amod
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 away	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 away	punct
5	even	even	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 away	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 away	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 away	cop
9	away	away	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your own parents					away property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The oldest child there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
2	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 child	advmod

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

Option 3

Whoever owns the console, because it's their house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 owns	nsubj
2	owns	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 console	det
4	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 owns	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 house	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 house	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 house	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 house	cop
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 house	nmod:poss
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 owns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	present	Whoever	the console					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot console=Theme
2	is a	present	console	their house					tree rules

Option 4

Nobody, it's a free house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 house	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 house	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 house	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 house	det
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nobody	a free house					tree rules

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