Exam question 1 · Football: positions, rules and scoring

Identify the sole player permitted to handle the ball, and the area within which such handling is lawful.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, area · What happens: identify, permit, handle, be · To what, where: sole player, ball

This is exam question 1 of lesson 41 «Football: positions, rules and scoring» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 player	det
3	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 player	amod
4	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 player	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 handle	mark
7	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 permitted	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ball	det
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 handle	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lawful	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lawful	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 area	det
13	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lawful	nsubj
14	within	within	ADP	_	17 handling	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 handling	nsubj
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 handling	amod
17	handling	handling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 area	nmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lawful	cop
19	lawful	lawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the sole player		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent player=Theme
2	permit	participle		the sole player not said here		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
3	handle not said to happen	to-infinitive		the ball		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
4	is	present	the area within such handling		lawful property	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.

The options

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

The goalkeeper, within their own penalty area

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goalkeeper	det
2	goalkeeper	goalkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 goalkeeper	punct
4	within	within	ADP	_	8 area	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 area	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 area	amod
7	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 area	compound
8	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goalkeeper	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Any defender, within their own half of the field of play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 defender	det
2	defender	defender	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 half	punct
4	within	within	ADP	_	7 half	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 half	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 half	amod
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 defender	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 field	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 field	det
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 half	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 play	case
12	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 field	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The goalkeeper, anywhere on the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goalkeeper	det
2	goalkeeper	goalkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 anywhere	punct
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 goalkeeper	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 field	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anywhere	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The captain, anywhere on the field of play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 captain	det
2	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 field	punct
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 field	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 field	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 captain	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 play	case
9	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 field	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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