Test 8 · ★ · Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar

«how's a jar of marbles gonna help, that's for babies» — why does it work?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: that, help · What happens: be, work · To what, where: jar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 407 «Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 jar	punct
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 jar	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 jar	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jar	det
5	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 marbles	case
7	marbles	marble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jar	nmod
8	gonna	gonna	X	_	9 help	compound
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jar	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 babies	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 babies	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 babies	cop
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 babies	case
14	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 help	appos
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 babies	punct
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 work	punct
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 work	advmod
18	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 work	aux
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 work	nsubj
20	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 jar	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 jar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		a jar and gonna help	of marbles	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	that		for babies	tree rules
3	work	present · do-support	help			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

The options

Option 1

It doesn't, it's just there as decoration for the shelf

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	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 does	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 there	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 does	parataxis
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 decoration	case
10	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 shelf	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shelf	det
13	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	present	It					for the shelf	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					as decoration; there property	tree rules

Option 2

It's a magic jar

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 jar	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 jar	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jar	det
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jar	compound
5	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a magic jar					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Counting a good habit makes it easier to keep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 makes	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 habit	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 habit	amod
4	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Counting	obj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	obj
7	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 makes	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 keep	mark
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		a good habit		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Theme
2	make	present	Counting	habit	easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	keep	to-infinitive	habit not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Marbles make you better at aiming somehow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marbles	marble	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
5	at	at	SCONJ	_	6 aiming	mark
6	aiming	aim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 make	advcl
7	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	6 aiming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Marbles	you				good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
2	aim	gerund	Marbles not said here					somehow property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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