Test 6 · Fighting games at a friend's house
«zara's beaten u at every racing game theo». What does this show?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: this · What happens: beat, show · To what, where: u, game theo
This is test 6 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: «zara's beaten u at every racing game theo».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 beaten | punct |
| 2 | zara | zara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beaten | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 zara | case |
| 4 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 beaten | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 theo | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 theo | det |
| 8 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 game | compound |
| 9 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 theo | compound |
| 10 | theo | theo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beaten | obl |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 beaten | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beaten | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat in a quote | participle | u | every game theo | 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 does this show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 show | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 show | nsubj |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · do-support | this | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Racing games are for girls, fighting games are for boys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 games | compound |
| 2 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 girls | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 girls | cop |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 girls | case |
| 5 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 boys | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 games | punct |
| 7 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 games | compound |
| 8 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 girls | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 boys | cop |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 boys | case |
| 11 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Racing games | for girls and fighting games | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | girls and fighting games | for boys | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Being good at games has nothing to do with boy or girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 good | cop |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 has | csubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 games | case |
| 4 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 good | obl |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 has | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 nothing | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 boy | case |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 girl | cc |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | games | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | with boy or girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Theo let her win
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | Theo | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win | infinitive | her = she not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Zara must cheat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cheat | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 cheat | aux |
| 3 | cheat | cheat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheat | must | Zara | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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