Test 6 · ★ · Just one more game
Sister yanks the plug mid-Tekken round. Noah: «I'm gonna kill you!!» Mum: «Nobody's killing anyone.» What's the fairer plan?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sister, Noah, Mum, fairer plan · What happens: yank, mid-tekken, kill, be · To what, where: plug, you, anyone
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Sister yanks the plug mid-Tekken round.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yanks | nsubj |
| 2 | yanks | yank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 plug | det |
| 4 | plug | plug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yanks | obj |
| 5 | mid-Tekken | mid-tekken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 plug | acl |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 mid-Tekken | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 yanks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yank | present | Sister | the plug | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent plug=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mid-tekken | participle | the plug not said here | round property | 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.
Sentence 2: Noah: «I'm gonna kill you!!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noah | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 kill | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kill | aux |
| 6 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 kill | dep |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | obj |
| 9 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 7 kill | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 kill | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present | Noah | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
Sentence 3: Mum: «Nobody's killing anyone.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 killing | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 killing | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 killing | punct |
| 4 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 killing | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 killing | aux |
| 6 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 killing | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 killing | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 killing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present · progressive | Mum | anyone | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme |
Sentence 4: What's the fairer plan?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plan | det |
| 4 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 plan | amod |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fairer plan | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
No more warnings, just switch-off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | ADV | _ | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 warnings | amod |
| 3 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 off | punct |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 off | advmod |
| 6 | switch | switch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 off | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 off | punct |
| 8 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warnings | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A five-minute warning before stopping
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 warning | det |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minute | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 five | punct |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warning | compound |
| 5 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 stopping | mark |
| 7 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 warning | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | gerund | a minute warning not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Noah unplugs her things in return
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 unplugs | nsubj |
| 2 | unplugs | unplug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 things | nmod:poss |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 unplugs | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 return | case |
| 6 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 unplugs | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unplug | present | Noah | Noah's things | return | tree rules |
Option 4
Noah gets to play two hours extra
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 play | mark |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gets | xcomp |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hours | nummod |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 play | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 play | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Noah | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | Noah not said here | hour | extra property | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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