Test 4 · ★ · Rival teams and the older bully
A dad screams «little cheat!» at a 10-year-old after a fair tackle. Who's in the wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: scream, be · To what, where: little cheat
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 472 «Rival teams and the older bully» 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: A dad screams «little cheat!» at a 10-year-old after a fair tackle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dad | det |
| 2 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 screams | nsubj |
| 3 | screams | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 cheat | punct |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cheat | amod |
| 6 | cheat | cheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 screams | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 screams | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 screams | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 old | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 old | det |
| 11 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 year | nummod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 10 | punct |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 old | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 year | punct |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 screams | parataxis |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 tackle | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tackle | det |
| 18 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tackle | amod |
| 19 | tackle | tackle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 old | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 screams | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | present | a dad | little cheat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheat=Topic |
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: Who's in the wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrong | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 wrong | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wrong | det |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Both teams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 teams | det |
| 2 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The referee
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 referee | det |
| 2 | referee | referee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The dad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dad | det |
| 2 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The 10-year-old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 old | det |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 year | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 10 | punct |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
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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