Test 9 · ★★★ · Loot boxes and the surprise trap
Kai, raging: «mum turned off the shop, the game's ruined!» A week later?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kai, mum · What happens: rage, turn off, ruin · To what, where: shop, game · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 413 «Loot boxes and the surprise trap» 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: Kai, raging: «mum turned off the shop, the game's ruined!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 raging | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kai | punct |
| 3 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raging | parataxis |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 turned | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shop | det |
| 10 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ruined | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 game | det |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ruined | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 game | case |
| 15 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 turned | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 raging | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 raging | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | gerund | Kai | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | turn off in a quote | past | mum | the shop | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shop=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ruin in a quote | participle · passive | the game | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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: A week later?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 later | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
He stopped playing for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stopped | xcomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 ever | case |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 playing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | He | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | play | gerund | He not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for ever=Eventuality |
Option 2
The shop turned itself back on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shop | det |
| 2 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 turned | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | past | the shop | shop | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He found the game just as fun without the shop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 game | det |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 fun | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 fun | case |
| 7 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 shop | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shop | det |
| 10 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | He | the game | as fun; without the shop | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent game=Theme as fun=Attribute |
Option 4
He bought a new console
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bought | nsubj |
| 2 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 console | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 console | amod |
| 5 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bought | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | He | a new console | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Theme |
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