Test 10 · Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating
Josh: "It's dreich out but the ice'll hold, go on." Someone falls through. What do you do?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ice, Someone, you · What happens: dreich out, hold, go on, fall through, do · To what, where: Josh
This is test 10 of lesson 44 «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» 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: Josh: "It's dreich out but the ice'll hold, go on."
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.
vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
The options
Option 1
Run out onto the ice to help them climb out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Run
run
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
out
out
ADV
_
1 Run
advmod
3
onto
onto
ADP
_
5 ice
case
4
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
5 ice
det
5
ice
ice
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Run
obl
6
to
to
PART
_
7 help
mark
7
help
help
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
1 Run
advcl
8
them
they
PRON
Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs
7 help
obj
9
climb
climb
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
7 help
xcomp
10
out
out
ADP
_
9 climb
compound:prt
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
run out
imperative
you not said here
the ice
out property
vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto ice=Trajectory
2
help
to-infinitive
you not said here
them = they
vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3
climb out
infinitive
them = theynot said here
vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
Option 2
Jump in after them and push them up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Jump
jump
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
in
in
ADV
_
1 Jump
advmod
3
after
after
ADP
_
4 them
case
4
them
they
PRON
Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs
1 Jump
obl
5
and
and
CCONJ
_
6 push
cc
6
push
push
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
1 Jump
conj
7
them
they
PRON
Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs
6 push
obj
8
up
up
ADP
_
6 push
compound:prt
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
jump in
imperative
you not said here
after them = they
vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2
push up
infinitive
you not said here
them = they
vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
Option 3
Wait to see if they can climb out alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Wait
wait
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
2
to
to
PART
_
3 see
mark
3
see
see
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
1 Wait
advcl
4
if
if
SCONJ
_
7 climb
mark
5
they
they
PRON
Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs
7 climb
nsubj
6
can
can
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
7 climb
aux
7
climb
climb
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
3 see
ccomp
8
out
out
ADP
_
7 climb
compound:prt
9
alone
alone
ADV
_
7 climb
advmod
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
wait
imperative
you not said here
vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2
see
to-infinitive
you not said here
vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3
climb outa condition, not said to happen
can
they
alone property
vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Stay off the ice and call 999
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Stay
stay
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
off
off
ADP
_
4 ice
case
3
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
4 ice
det
4
ice
ice
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Stay
obl
5
and
and
CCONJ
_
6 call
cc
6
call
call
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
1 Stay
conj
7
999
999
NUM
NumForm=Digit NumType=Card
6 call
obj
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
stay
imperative
you not said here
off the ice
vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2
call
infinitive
you not said here
999
vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient
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.