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Test 6 · ★ · Rival teams and the older bully

A girl keeps shoving Maddie behind the umpire's back. What's smartest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: keep, shove, be · To what, where: Maddie, back

This is test 6 · ★ 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 girl keeps shoving Maddie behind the umpire's back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	shoving	shove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shoving	obj
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 back	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 umpire	det
8	umpire	umpire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 umpire	case
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoving	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a girl						tree rules
2	shove	gerund	a girl not said here	Maddie		the umpire's back			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent maddie=Theme behind back=Destination

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's smartest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 smartest	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smartest	cop
3	smartest	smart	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 smartest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						smart property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Shove back hard, she started it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shove	shove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Shove	advmod
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Shove	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 started	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 started	nsubj
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Shove	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 started	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove back	imperative	you not said here					hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	start	past	she	it					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tell her coach at the break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 coach	nmod:poss
3	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 break	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 break	det
6	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	her coach		the break			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient

Option 3

Walk off the court for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	4 court	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 court	det
4	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk off	imperative	you not said here	the court				for good	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Source

Option 4

Trip her when nobody's looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trip	trip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Trip	obj
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 looking	mark
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 looking	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 looking	aux
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Trip	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Agent
2	look	present · progressive	nobody						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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