Test 6 · Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating
"Me shoulder's killing me," says Callum after a week of daily serving. What's sensible?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Me shoulder, Callum · What happens: kill, say, be · To what, where: Callum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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: "Me shoulder's killing me," says Callum after a week of daily serving.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 killing | punct |
| 2 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 shoulder | compound |
| 3 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killing | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 killing | aux |
| 5 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 says | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 killing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 killing | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 killing | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Callum | Callum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 week | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 week | det |
| 13 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 serving | case |
| 15 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 serving | amod |
| 16 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 week | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present · progressive | Me shoulder | Callum | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Callum | week | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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's sensible?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 sensible | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sensible | cop |
| 3 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sensible | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sensible property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Serve twice as much to toughen it up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 much | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Serve | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 toughen | mark |
| 6 | toughen | toughen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 much | acl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 toughen | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 toughen | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | imperative | you not said here | much | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | toughen up | to-infinitive | it | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2
Ice it, then serve for two hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ice | ice | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Ice | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 serve | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 serve | advmod |
| 5 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ice | parataxis |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 hours | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hours | nummod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 serve | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ice | imperative | you not said here | it | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | serve | infinitive | then; hour | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Rest it and mix serves with other practice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Rest | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mix | cc |
| 4 | mix | mix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Rest | conj |
| 5 | serves | serve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mix | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 practice | case |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 practice | amod |
| 8 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mix | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | imperative | you not said here | it | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mix | infinitive | you not said here | serves | with other practice | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent serve=Patient with practice=Co-Patient |
Option 4
Serve with the other arm all day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serve | serve | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 arm | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 arm | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 arm | amod |
| 5 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Serve | nmod |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arm | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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