Test 10 · Big brothers
★★★ Cian, Tadhg and two friends play FIFA. Each player plays every other player once. How many games?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, player · What happens: play · To what, where: FIFA, other player
This is test 10 of lesson 501 «Big brothers» 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: ★★★ Cian, Tadhg and two friends play FIFA.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 play | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Cian | case |
| 4 | Cian | Cian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tadhg | punct |
| 6 | Tadhg | Tadhg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 friends | cc |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 friends | nummod |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 ★ | conj |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | FIFA | FIFA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 play | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 play | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | ★ ★ Cian and Tadhg and two friends | FIFA | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifa=Theme |
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: Each player plays every other player once.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 player | det |
| 2 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plays | nsubj |
| 3 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 player | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 player | amod |
| 6 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plays | obj |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 plays | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | each player | every other player | once property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Theme |
Sentence 3: How many games?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 games | amod |
| 3 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 games | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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