Test 7 · Friends, teams and fair play

Which is true about cheating?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, cheat

This is test 7 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 cheating	mark
5	cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 true	advcl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	cheat	gerund							vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

It is fine if the others cheated first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 cheated	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 others	det
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cheated	nsubj
7	cheated	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 cheated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	cheat a condition, not said to happen	past	the others					first property	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Even if nobody notices, it makes the game unfair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	4 notices	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 notices	mark
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 notices	nsubj
4	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 makes	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 notices	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 game	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obj
10	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice a condition, not said to happen	present	nobody						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	make	present	it	the game				unfair property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material game=Product

Option 3

It is fine in games that do not matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 games	case
5	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fine	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 matter	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 matter	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 matter	advmod
9	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 games	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				games		fine property	tree rules
2	not matter	present · do-support	games						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

It is fine if nobody notices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 notices	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 notices	nsubj
6	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	notice a condition, not said to happen	present	nobody						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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