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Test 10 · ★ · Just one more game

Teacher: «Why is it harder to stop in the middle than to plan before?» Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, stop, plan · To what, where: middle

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 417 «Just one more game» 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: Teacher: «Why is it harder to stop in the middle than to plan before?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harder	vocative
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Teacher	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 harder	punct
4	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 harder	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 harder	cop
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 harder	nsubj
7	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stop	mark
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 harder	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 middle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 middle	det
12	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	obl
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 plan	mark
14	to	to	PART	_	15 plan	mark
15	plan	plan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stop	advcl
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 plan	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 harder	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 harder	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	it					Teacher vocative; hard property	tree rules
2	stop in a quote	to-infinitive				the middle			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
3	plan in a quote	to-infinitive							vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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.

Sentence 2: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Plans made before always get forgotten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forgotten	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Plans	acl
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 always	case
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 made	obl
5	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 forgotten	aux:pass
6	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		Plans not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	forget	present · passive		Plans					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

While playing, the fun pulls you to go on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	While	while	SCONJ	_	2 playing	mark
2	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 pulls	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 playing	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fun	det
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	nsubj
6	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pulls	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pulls	xcomp
10	on	on	ADV	_	9 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	the fun not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pull	present	the fun	you					tree rules
3	go on	to-infinitive	the fun not said here						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Games stop on their own if you plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 own	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 own	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stop	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 plan	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 plan	nsubj
8	plan	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Games			Games's own			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	plan a condition, not said to happen	present	you						vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is easier to stop when you are losing

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 easier	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easier	cop
3	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stop	mark
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easier	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 losing	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 losing	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 losing	aux
9	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						easy property	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	lose	present · progressive	you						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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