Test 9 · ★★ · Copying game moves on a little brother
«leo froze his brother with an ice move and he's STILL a statue lol». Why is this fine?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leo, this · What happens: freeze, be · To what, where: brother, statue
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: «leo froze his brother with an ice move and he's STILL a statue lol».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 froze | punct |
| 2 | leo | leo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 froze | nsubj |
| 3 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 froze | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 move | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 move | det |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 move | compound |
| 9 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 froze | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 statue | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 statue | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 statue | cop |
| 13 | STILL | still | ADV | _ | 15 statue | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 statue | det |
| 15 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 move | nmod |
| 16 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 15 statue | discourse |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 froze | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 froze | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze in a quote | past | leo | leo's brother | with a ice move | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent brother=Patient with move=Instrument | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | leo | a statue | still | 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: Why is this fine?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 fine | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | fine property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Because the brother is older and bigger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 older | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 older | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 older | cop |
| 5 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bigger | cc |
| 7 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 older | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the brother | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the brother not said here | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It's make-believe with no touching
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | 's | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 touching | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 touching | det |
| 8 | touching | touching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | It | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | believe | infinitive | with no touching | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
It isn't, freezing someone really hurts them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 freezing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 freezing | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 freezing | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 freezing | punct |
| 5 | freezing | freeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hurts | advcl |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 freezing | obj |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 hurts | advmod |
| 8 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hurts | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | It | freeze property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurt | present | them = they | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
Option 4
Because ice moves are weaker than kicks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 weaker | mark |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | compound |
| 3 | moves | move | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 weaker | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weaker | cop |
| 5 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 kicks | case |
| 7 | kicks | kick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 weaker | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ice moves | than kicks; weak property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/t9/