Test 9 · Friends, teams and fair play

What happens when a team member does not do their part?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: team member · What happens: happen, not do · To what, where: part

This is test 9 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 do	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 member	det
5	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 member	compound
6	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 do	advmod
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 happens	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 part	nmod:poss
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not do	present · do-support	a team member	their part					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality

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

Nobody notices any difference

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 notices	nsubj
2	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 difference	det
4	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 notices	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	present	Nobody	any difference					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The others have more to do and the team does less well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 more	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 does	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 team	det
9	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 does	nsubj
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
11	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 does	advmod
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 does	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the others	more		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	the team		less, well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The teacher does that part instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 part	det
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 does	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the teacher	that part				instead property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality

Option 4

The team works better and faster with fewer people in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 team	det
2	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	nsubj
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 works	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 faster	cc
6	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 better	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 people	case
8	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 works	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	the team					with fewer people in it; well property	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with people=Co-Agent

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