Test 8 · Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building
Ollie wants new friends who like trains. Which is safest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ollie, new friends · What happens: want, like, be · To what, where: new friends, trains
This is test 8 of lesson 424 «Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building» 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: Ollie wants new friends who like trains.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friends | amod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wants | obj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 like | nsubj |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 friends | acl:relcl |
| 7 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 like | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Ollie | new friends | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like | present | new friends | trains | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot train=Theme |
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: Which is safest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 safest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 safest | cop |
| 3 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 safest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | safe property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A random chat room full of strangers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 room | det |
| 2 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 room | amod |
| 3 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 room | compound |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 room | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 strangers | case |
| 7 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Posting his address in a train game
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Posting | post | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 address | nmod:poss |
| 3 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Posting | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 game | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 game | det |
| 6 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 game | compound |
| 7 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Posting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | post | gerund | his address | a train game | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Theme | ||||
| 2 | address | his = he | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
Adding everyone who sends a request
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adding | add | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Adding | obj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sends | nsubj |
| 4 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 request | det |
| 6 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sends | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | gerund | everyone | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient | |||||
| 2 | send | present | a request | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The school's games club with a teacher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 club | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 games | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 school | case |
| 4 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 club | compound |
| 5 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 teacher | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 teacher | det |
| 8 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 club | nmod |
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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