Test 7 · Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»
Zara: «reporting is pointless, nobody reads them». Right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zara, nobody · What happens: be, read · To what, where: them
This is test 7 of lesson 406 «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» 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: «reporting is pointless, nobody reads them».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pointless | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 pointless | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 pointless | punct |
| 4 | reporting | reporting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pointless | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pointless | cop |
| 6 | pointless | pointless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reads | punct |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 reads | nsubj |
| 9 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pointless | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reads | obj |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 reads | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pointless | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Zara | pointless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read in a quote | present | nobody | them = they | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Wrong, reports go to the police only, never to the game
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reports | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wrong | punct |
| 3 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 police | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 police | det |
| 7 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 game | punct |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 game | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 game | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 game | det |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Wrong reports | the police | to the game | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to police=Initial_Location to game=Destination |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Wrong, reports get read and players get banned
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reports | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wrong | punct |
| 3 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 read | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 read | aux:pass |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 banned | cc |
| 7 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 banned | nsubj |
| 8 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 banned | aux:pass |
| 9 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 read | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present · passive | Wrong reports | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ban | present · passive | players | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
Right, only adults can report
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 6 report | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 adults | advmod |
| 4 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 report | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 report | aux |
| 6 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | can | adults | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Right, reports go nowhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 go | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 3 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | reports | nowhere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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