Test 11 · ★★★ · The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend
Maddie plays Minecraft with her cousin in Ireland every week. Why is that safer than with ShadowWolf?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maddie · What happens: play, be · To what, where: Minecraft, Ireland
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 480 «The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend» 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: Maddie plays Minecraft with her cousin in Ireland every week.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | nsubj |
| 2 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Minecraft | Minecraft | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cousin | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Ireland | case |
| 8 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | obl |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 week | det |
| 10 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | Maddie | Minecraft | Ireland | week | with Maddie's cousin | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent minecraft=Theme with cousin=Co-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: Why is that safer than with ShadowWolf?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 safer | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 safer | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 safer | mark |
| 4 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 ShadowWolf | case |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 ShadowWolf | case |
| 7 | ShadowWolf | ShadowWolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 safer | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 safer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | than ShadowWolf; safe property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Cousins never lie about anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lie | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 lie | advmod |
| 3 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 anything | case |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 lie | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lie | present | Cousins | about anything | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about anything=Location |
Option 2
Minecraft has no strangers in it at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minecraft | Minecraft | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 strangers | det |
| 4 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 strangers | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 strangers | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Minecraft | no strangers | it | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Patient |
Option 3
Ireland has much better internet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 better | advmod |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 internet | amod |
| 5 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Ireland | better internet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent internet=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
She knows her cousin in real life
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 | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knows | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | She | her cousin | real life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cousin=Stimulus |
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