Test 2 · ★★★ · Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football
Thabo: "Lekker shot, that's a six!" It bounced once before the rope. What would make it a real six?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lekker, that, six · What happens: shoot, be, bounce, make · To what, where: Thabo, six, rope
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 45 «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football» 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.
vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thabo=Theme
2
is ain a quote
present
that
a six
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.
vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme post=Co-Theme
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Clearing the rope without bouncing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Clearing
clear
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
root
root
2
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
3 rope
det
3
rope
rope
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Clearing
obj
4
without
without
SCONJ
_
5 bouncing
mark
5
bouncing
bounce
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
1 Clearing
advcl
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
clear
gerund
the rope
vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent rope=Source
2
bounce
gerund
vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
Option 3
Bouncing exactly twice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Bouncing
bounce
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
root
root
2
exactly
exactly
ADV
_
3 twice
advmod
3
twice
twice
ADV
NumForm=Word NumType=Mult
1 Bouncing
advmod
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
bounce
gerund
twice property
vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
Option 4
Rolling slowly over the rope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Rolling
roll
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
root
root
2
slowly
slowly
ADV
_
1 Rolling
advmod
3
over
over
ADP
_
5 rope
case
4
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
5 rope
det
5
rope
rope
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Rolling
obl
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
roll
gerund
the rope
slowly property
vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rope=Trajectory
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.