Test 14 · Friends, teams and fair play

we lost again, gonna kick the ball at the ref

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: lose, kick · To what, where: ball, ref

This is test 14 of lesson 52 «Friends, teams and fair play» 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

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 lost	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kick	punct
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 kick	dep
6	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lost	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kick	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 ref	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ref	det
11	ref	ref	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	we				again		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	kick	infinitive	we not said here	the ball		the ref			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ball=Patient at ref=Location

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he deserves it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 deserves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 deserves	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 deserves	nsubj
4	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 deserves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve	present	he	it					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, if nobody sees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sees	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sees	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 sees	mark
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 sees	nsubj
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, walk away, you could hurt him and get banned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 walk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct
3	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 walk	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 hurt	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 walk	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hurt	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 get	cc
11	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	conj
12	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk away	imperative	you not said here		away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	could	you	him = he		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
3	get	infinitive	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	ban	participle	you not said here			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 4

Yes, but kick it softly so it only scares him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kick	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 kick	cc
4	kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kick	obj
6	softly	softly	ADV	_	4 kick	advmod
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 scares	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 scares	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 scares	advmod
10	scares	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kick	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 scares	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	imperative	you not said here	it				softly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	scare	present	it	him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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