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Test 8 · ★ · Joining a game, and the shy kid

Lily misses the ball five times at rounders. Her cousin's mates are laughing. What's the best way to handle it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lily, mates, best way · What happens: miss, laugh, be, handle · To what, where: ball, rounders, way

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 466 «Joining a game, and the shy kid» 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: Lily misses the ball five times at rounders.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 misses	nsubj
2	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 misses	obj
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 misses	obl:unmarked
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 rounders	case
8	rounders	rounder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 misses	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 misses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present	Lily	the ball		rounders	time		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus

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: Her cousin's mates are laughing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mates	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cousin	case
4	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laughing	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 laughing	aux
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laughing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · progressive	Lily's cousin's mates						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What's the best way to handle it?

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 way	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 handle	mark
7	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 handle	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best way						tree rules
2	handle	to-infinitive	the best way not said here	way					vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1

Storm off and go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storm	storm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Storm	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 go	cc
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Storm	conj
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	storm off	imperative	you not said here						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	go	infinitive	you not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Laugh at herself and keep playing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 herself	case
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Laugh	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 keep	cc
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	conj
6	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here					at herself = she	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here						tree rules
3	play	gerund	you not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Say rounders is stupid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	rounders	rounder	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Say	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stupid	cop
4	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	rounders					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rounder=Topic
2	is	present						stupid property	tree rules

Option 4

Hit someone with the bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Hit	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 bat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bat	det
5	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	someone				with the bat	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent someone=Patient with bat=Instrument

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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