Test 8 · ★★ · Copying game moves on a little brother
«bro wants to do game moves on the trampoline, sound?» Best reply?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro · What happens: want, do · To what, where: game moves, trampoline
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 403 «Copying game moves on a little brother» 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: «bro wants to do game moves on the trampoline, sound?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 2 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moves | compound |
| 7 | moves | move | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 trampoline | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trampoline | det |
| 10 | trampoline | trampoline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sound | punct |
| 12 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trampoline | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | bro | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | bro not said here | game moves | the trampoline and sound | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Eventuality |
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: Best reply?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 reply | amod |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 reply | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Only if mum's not watching
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 watching | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 watching | mark |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watching | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 watching | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 watching | advmod |
| 6 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not watch | present · progressive | mum | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yes, trampolines are soft, so nobody can get hurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 soft | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | trampolines | trampoline | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 soft | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 soft | cop |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hurt | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 hurt | advmod |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hurt | aux |
| 10 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 hurt | aux:pass |
| 11 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 soft | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | trampolines | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurt | can · passive | nobody | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
Yes, but only the kicks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 kicks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 kicks | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 kicks | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kicks | det |
| 6 | kicks | kick | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, have a bouncing contest instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 have | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 contest | det |
| 5 | bouncing | bounce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 contest | amod |
| 6 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a bouncing contest | instead property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bounce | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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