Test 5 · Fighting games at a friend's house
«girls can't play fighting games, it's for boys». What's the honest answer?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girls, it, honest answer · What happens: not play, fight, be · To what, where: games
This is test 5 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
Sentence 1: «girls can't play fighting games, it's for boys».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 play | punct |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 play | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 play | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 play | advmod |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 play | xcomp |
| 7 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fighting | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 boys | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 boys | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 boys | cop |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 boys | case |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 play | parataxis |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 boys | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 play | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not play in a quote | can | girls | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fight in a quote | gerund | girls not said here | games | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | it | for boys | 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's the honest answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the honest answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
True, it's a rule printed on the box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rule | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rule | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rule | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rule | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rule | det |
| 6 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rule | acl | |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 box | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 box | det |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 printed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a True rule | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | participle | a True rule not said here | the box | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on box=Destination |
Option 2
True, girls get scared too easily
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girls | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 True | punct |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 easily | advmod |
| 7 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | True girls | easily, scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Only if a boy says they can play
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 says | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 says | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 play | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 play | aux |
| 8 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | play | can | they | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Rubbish, games are for anyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 games | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rubbish | punct |
| 3 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 anyone | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 anyone | cop |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 anyone | case |
| 6 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Rubbish games | for anyone | tree rules |
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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