Test 19 · Friends, teams and fair play
heard our team lost cos Ellie missed the goal, everyone's blaming her
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: team, Ellie, everyone · What happens: hear, lose, miss, blame · To what, where: team, goal, Ellie
This is test 19 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 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 team | nmod:poss |
| 3 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 heard | obj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 heard | xcomp |
| 5 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 7 missed | mark |
| 6 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 missed | nsubj |
| 7 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goal | det |
| 9 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 missed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blaming | punct |
| 11 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 blaming | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 blaming | aux |
| 13 | blaming | blame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 heard | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 blaming | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | our team | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lose | participle | our team not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | miss | past | Ellie | the goal | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goal=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | blame | present · progressive | everyone | Ellie | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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.
The options
Option 1
Spread it, so she trains harder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Spread | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trains | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 trains | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 trains | nsubj |
| 6 | trains | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Spread | parataxis |
| 7 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 trains | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | imperative | you not said here | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | train | present | she | hard property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Spread it, since she missed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Spread | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 missed | punct |
| 4 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 missed | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 missed | nsubj |
| 6 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Spread | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | imperative | you not said here | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | miss | past | she | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Good teams do not blame one person for a loss; do not spread it
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 teams | amod |
| 2 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blame | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blame | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 blame | advmod |
| 5 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 person | nummod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blame | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 loss | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 loss | det |
| 10 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blame | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 spread | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 spread | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 spread | advmod |
| 14 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 blame | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spread | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not blame | present · do-support | Good teams | one person | for a loss | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent person=Theme for loss=Attribute | |||
| 2 | not spread | infinitive · do-support | person | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
Option 4
Spread it, and say she did it on purpose because she wanted the other team to win
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Spread | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 say | cc |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Spread | parataxis |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 purpose | case |
| 10 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obl |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 wanted | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wanted | nsubj |
| 13 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Spread | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 team | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 team | amod |
| 16 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wanted | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 win | mark |
| 18 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | imperative | you not said here | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | do | past | she | it | purpose | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | want | past | she | the other team | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | win not said to happen | to-infinitive | the other team not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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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