Test 6 · The row over a game
Coach hears Jake: «we lost cos Sam missed, he's a muppet». What does a good team say?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Coach, we, Sam, good team · What happens: hear, lose, miss, be, say · To what, where: Jake, muppet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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: Coach hears Jake: «we lost cos Sam missed, he's a muppet».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hears | nsubj |
| 2 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hears | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 hears | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hears | parataxis |
| 8 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 10 missed | mark |
| 9 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 missed | nsubj |
| 10 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lost | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 muppet | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 muppet | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 muppet | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 muppet | det |
| 15 | muppet | muppet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | Coach | Jake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | past | we | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | miss in a quote | past | Sam | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Sam | a muppet | tree rules |
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 does a good team say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 team | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 team | amod |
| 5 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | a good team | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
We win and lose together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 win | nsubj |
| 2 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lose | cc |
| 4 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 win | conj |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 lose | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | We | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lose | present | We not said here | together property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Only Sam is to blame for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 blame | advmod |
| 2 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 blame | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blame | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 blame | mark |
| 5 | blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blame | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sam | for it; blame property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Sam should never play again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 play | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 play | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 play | advmod |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 play | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not play | should | Sam | again | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Only Jake is to blame for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 blame | advmod |
| 2 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 blame | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blame | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 blame | mark |
| 5 | blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blame | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Jake | for it; blame property | tree rules |
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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