Test 10 · Friends through games and clubs
The team chants a nickname at you every time you score. How can you tell it's friendly?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: team, you · What happens: chant, score, tell, be · To what, where: nickname, time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 of lesson 467 «Friends through games and clubs» 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: The team chants a nickname at you every time you score.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 team | det |
| 2 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chants | nsubj |
| 3 | chants | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 nickname | det |
| 5 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chants | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 chants | obl |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chants | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 score | nsubj |
| 11 | score | score | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chant | present | the team | a nickname | time | at you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nickname=Topic | ||
| 2 | score | present | you | every time not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=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: How can you tell it's friendly?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 tell | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 friendly | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 friendly | cop |
| 7 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | team | friendly property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
It's said with cheering and you're part of the team
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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 cheering | case |
| 5 | cheering | cheering | NOUN | _ | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 part | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 part | nsubj |
| 8 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 part | cop |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cheering | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 team | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 team | det |
| 12 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 part | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | It | with cheering and part | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme with cheering=Manner | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | part | of the team | tree rules |
Option 2
It rhymes
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 | 2 rhymes | nsubj |
| 2 | rhymes | rhyme | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rhyme | present | It | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It's said by grown-ups
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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 ups | case |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ups | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
| 7 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | grown ups | It | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
It's shouted really loudly from the other side of the pitch
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 shouted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shouted | aux:pass |
| 3 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 loudly | advmod |
| 5 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 shouted | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 side | amod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pitch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pitch | det |
| 12 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present · passive | It | the other side of the pitch | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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