Test 1 · In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem

«nah mate this skin makes me cracked, I'm way better now». true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: skin, me, I · What happens: make, crack, be · To what, where: me, way

This is test 1 of lesson 412 «In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem» 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	_	6 makes	punct
2	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 makes	discourse
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nah	vocative
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 skin	det
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 makes	obj
8	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 way	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 way	cop
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	conj
13	better	better	ADV	_	14 now	advmod
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 way	advmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 makes	xcomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present	this skin	me		true property	tree rules
2	crack in a quote	past	me not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	I	way	now		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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if it cost a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 cost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cost	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 cost	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cost	nsubj
5	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	past	it	a lot					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lot=Value

Option 2

Yes, rare skins are faster and jump a bit higher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 skins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 skins	amod
4	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 faster	obl:unmarked
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 faster	cop
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 jump	cc
8	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 faster	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 higher	obl:unmarked
11	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 jump	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						rare skins obl:unmarked; fast property	tree rules
2	jump	infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, a skin changes how you look, not how you play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 changes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 changes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changes	nsubj
5	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 look	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 look	nsubj
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 changes	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 play	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 play	advmod
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 play	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 play	nsubj
13	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 changes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	change	present	a skin	tree rules
2	look	present	you	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	not play	present	you	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only in the first week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 week	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 week	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 week	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 week	amod
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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.

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