Test 4 · ★★ · VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries

Mia, after reading that refs pass fitness tests: which is more accurate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, refs · What happens: read, pass, be · To what, where: fitness tests

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 65 «VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 accurate	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mia	punct
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 reading	mark
4	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 accurate	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 pass	mark
6	refs	ref	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pass	nsubj
7	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reading	advcl
8	fitness	fitness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tests	compound
9	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pass	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 accurate	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 accurate	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 accurate	cop
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 accurate	advmod
14	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 accurate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	gerund	Mia not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pass	present	refs	fitness tests		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme test=Trajectory
3	is	present	Mia		accurate 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

Refs ride bikes on the pitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refs	ref	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ride	nsubj
2	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ride	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 pitch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pitch	det
6	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ride	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	Refs	bikes		the pitch			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Refs run nearly as far as many players

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refs	ref	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 run	nsubj
2	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 run	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 players	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 players	amod
8	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 far	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	Refs					far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Refs never need to run because they stand in the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refs	ref	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 need	advmod
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 need	xcomp
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 stand	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stand	nsubj
8	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 need	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 middle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 middle	det
11	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	not need	present	Refs		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	run not said to happen	to-infinitive	Refs not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	present	Refs = ref	the middle	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location

Option 4

Refs walk about 1 km

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refs	ref	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 1	advmod
4	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 km	nummod
5	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Refs	1 km					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme km=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.

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