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Test 9 · The row over a game

In a cartoon, two pals smash controllers and never speak again. What happens more often in real life?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two pals · What happens: smash, not speak, happen · To what, where: controllers, cartoon, real life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: In a cartoon, two pals smash controllers and never speak again.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smash	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 pals	nummod
6	pals	pal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 smash	nsubj
7	smash	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	controllers	controller	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 smash	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 speak	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 speak	advmod
11	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 smash	conj
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 speak	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 smash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	present	two pals	controllers		a cartoon			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent controller=Theme in cartoon=Destination
2	not speak speech: other	infinitive	two pals not said here				again		vn talk-37.5 «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 happens more often in real life?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 often	advmod
4	often	often	ADV	_	2 happens	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 life	case
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 life	amod
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present				real life		often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

They cool off and play again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cool	nsubj
2	cool	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 cool	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 play	cc
5	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cool	conj
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 play	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool off	present	They						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	play	infinitive	They not said here				again		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They buy new friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 buy	nsubj
2	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friends	amod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present	They	new friends					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme

Option 3

They move house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 move	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	They	house					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 4

They never speak to each other again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 speak	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 speak	advmod
3	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 speak	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	present	They				again	to each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent

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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