Test 8 · Football: positions, rules and scoring
"Headers are harmless with a light ball, man." What is the guidance trying to avoid?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Headers, guidance · What happens: be, try, avoid
This is test 8 of lesson 41 «Football: positions, rules and scoring» of the medicine 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: "Headers are harmless with a light ball, man."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 harmless | punct |
| 2 | Headers | header | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 harmless | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 harmless | cop |
| 4 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 ball | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ball | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ball | compound |
| 8 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 harmless | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ball | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 harmless | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 harmless | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Headers | with a light ball and man; harmless 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.
Sentence 2: What is the guidance trying to avoid?
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guidance | det |
| 4 | guidance | guidance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 guidance | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 avoid | mark |
| 7 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trying | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the guidance | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | gerund | the guidance not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | avoid not said to happen | to-infinitive | the guidance not said here | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Coaches getting bored in training
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coaches | coach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 getting | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 training | case |
| 5 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bored | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | Coaches | bored property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Repeated knocks to a young brain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knocks | amod |
| 2 | knocks | knock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 brain | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 brain | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brain | amod |
| 6 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knocks | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
Players growing too tall too quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Players | acl |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 tall | advmod |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 growing | xcomp |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 quickly | advmod |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 growing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | Players not said here | quickly, tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Footballs getting dirty and worn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Footballs | football | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 getting | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 worn | cc |
| 5 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dirty | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | Footballs | dirty property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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