Test 8 · Friends, teams and fair play
Two friends both want to be the captain. What is a fair way to decide?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two friends, fair way · What happens: want, be, decide · To what, where: captain
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: Two friends both want to be the captain.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 friends | nummod |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 want | nsubj |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 captain | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 captain | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 captain | det |
| 8 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Two friends | both property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | Two friends not said here | the captain | tree rules |
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: What is a fair way to decide?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 decide | mark |
| 7 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a fair way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | decide | to-infinitive | a fair way not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The taller one is captain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 captain | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 captain | cop |
| 5 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the taller one | captain | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Take turns being captain in different games
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 captain | cop |
| 4 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 games | case |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 games | amod |
| 7 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | turns | different games | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent turn=Value in game=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | gerund | captain | tree rules |
Option 3
Neither plays until the other one gives in and lets them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 plays | nsubj |
| 2 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 gives | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gives | nsubj |
| 7 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 plays | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 gives | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lets | cc |
| 10 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 plays | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lets | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | Neither | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give in | present | the other one | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let | present | Neither not said here | them = they | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 4
Whoever shouts first is captain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 shouts | nsubj |
| 2 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 shouts | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 captain | cop |
| 5 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shouts | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | Whoever | first property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Whoever not said here | captain | tree rules |
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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