Test 5 · The row over a game
«this game is trash» says Chloe, switching off mid-song while losing. What's going on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: game, Chloe · What happens: be, say, switch off, lose, go on · To what, where: trash, mid-song · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 of lesson 475 «The row over a game» 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: «this game is trash» says Chloe, switching off mid-song while losing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 trash | punct |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trash | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trash | cop |
| 5 | trash | trash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 switching | punct |
| 10 | switching | switch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 says | advcl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 switching | compound:prt |
| 12 | mid-song | mid-song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 switching | obj |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 losing | mark |
| 14 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 switching | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this game | trash | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Chloe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | switch off | gerund | Chloe not said here | mid-song | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mid-song=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lose | gerund | Chloe not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 going on?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 going | compound:prt |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | present · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
She's annoyed with losing, not with the game
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 annoyed | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 annoyed | cop |
| 3 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 losing | mark |
| 5 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 annoyed | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 game | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 game | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 game | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 game | det |
| 10 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 losing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | annoyed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | She not said here | with the game | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The game really is broken and keeps skipping songs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 broken | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | aux:pass |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 game | acl:relcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 broken | cc |
| 7 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | skipping | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 keeps | xcomp |
| 9 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 skipping | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · passive | the game not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | the game | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | skip | gerund | the game not said here | songs | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Agent |
Option 3
Aisha is cheating
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aisha | Aisha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cheating | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cheating | aux |
| 3 | cheating | cheat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheat | present · progressive | Aisha | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The music is too loud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 music | det |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loud | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 loud | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 loud | advmod |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the music | loud property | tree rules |
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