Test 2 · Friends through games and clubs
Connor meets his online mates for real and everyone goes silent. What helps?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Connor, everyone · What happens: meet, go, help · To what, where: online mates
This is test 2 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: Connor meets his online mates for real and everyone goes silent.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 meets | nsubj |
| 2 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mates | nmod:poss |
| 4 | online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mates | amod |
| 5 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 meets | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 real | case |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 meets | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 goes | cc |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 meets | conj |
| 11 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 goes | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 meets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | Connor | Connor's online mates | for real | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | go | present | everyone | silent property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: What helps?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Leave the party at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 party | det |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Leave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | the party | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent party=Theme at once=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Pretend he's never played
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 played | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 played | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 played | advmod |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Pretend | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not play | present · passive | he | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Stare at his trainers all day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stare | stare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 trainers | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 trainers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | trainers | trainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stare | obl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stare | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | imperative | you not said here | day | at his trainers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at trainer=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Talk about the game they all share
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 game | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 game | det |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 share | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 share | nsubj |
| 7 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 game | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | about the game | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about game=Topic | ||||
| 2 | share | present | they | the game not said here | tree rules |
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