Test 15 · Friends, teams and fair play

i keep changing the rules so i win, now no one plays with me

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: i, one · What happens: keep, change, win, play · To what, where: rules

This is test 15 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	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keep	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rules	det
5	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 changing	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 win	advmod
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 win	nsubj
8	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 plays	punct
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 plays	advmod
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plays	nsubj
13	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 plays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	i				tree rules
2	change	gerund	i not said here	the rules			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient
3	win	present	i				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	play	present	no one		now	with me	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Play fairly, then friends will want to play again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	1 Play	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 want	advmod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Play	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 play	mark
9	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 play	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	play	imperative	you not said here		fairly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	future	friends	then		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	friends not said here	again		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Play alone, it is better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Play	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 better	expl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 better	cop
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Play	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	imperative	you not said here					alone property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you not said here					good property	tree rules

Option 3

Tell them they are bad losers and they're just jealous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 losers	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 losers	cop
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 losers	amod
6	losers	loser	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 jealous	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 jealous	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 jealous	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 jealous	advmod
11	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is a	present	they	bad losers			tree rules
3	is	present	losers = loser			jealous property	tree rules

Option 4

Change them more so you win more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Change	obj
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Change	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 win	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 win	nsubj
6	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Change	advcl
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 win	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	win	present	you						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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