Test 11 · ★ · Just one more game
Mate: «pfft, real gamers don't stop for dinner». What's true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real gamers · What happens: not stop, be
This is test 11 · ★ 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: Mate: «pfft, real gamers don't stop for dinner».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 pfft | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 pfft | punct |
| 4 | pfft | pfft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stop | punct |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gamers | amod |
| 7 | gamers | gamer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stop | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stop | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 stop | advmod |
| 10 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pfft | parataxis |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 dinner | case |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stop | obl |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 stop | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop in a quote | present · do-support | real gamers | for dinner | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: What's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Real gamers skip meals to stay on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gamers | amod |
| 2 | gamers | gamer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 skip | nsubj |
| 3 | skip | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 skip | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 skip | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 stay | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | present | Real gamers | meals | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stay on | to-infinitive | Real gamers not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Stopping when you need to is normal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stopping | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 normal | csubj |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 need | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stopping | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 need | xcomp |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 normal | cop |
| 7 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | gerund | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | need | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Stopping | normal property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Only beginners stop for dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 beginners | advmod |
| 2 | beginners | beginner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 dinner | case |
| 5 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | beginners | for dinner | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4
Dinner can be eaten during the match
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eaten | aux:pass |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | during | during | ADP | _ | 7 match | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 match | det |
| 7 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | can · passive | Dinner | during the match | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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