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Test 9 · Picking teams and being picked last

Niamh tells her mum later how picking felt. What will probably happen to the feeling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Niamh · What happens: tell, pick, happen · To what, where: mum, felt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 66 «Picking teams and being picked last» 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: Niamh tells her mum later how picking felt.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Niamh	Niamh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 tells	advmod
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 picking	advmod
7	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tells	advcl
8	felt	felt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 picking	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Niamh		Niamh's mum			late property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
2	pick	gerund	Niamh not said here	felt					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent felt=Patient

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 will probably happen to the feeling?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 feeling	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feeling	det
7	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happen	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	future						to the feeling; probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It turns into a fever overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 fever	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fever	det
5	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
6	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	2 turns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It			a fever		overnight property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into fever=Trajectory

Option 2

It doubles because she talked about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 doubles	nsubj
2	doubles	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 talked	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talked	nsubj
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doubles	advcl
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double	present	It						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	talk	past	she					about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It settles faster once it's shared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 settles	nsubj
2	settles	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 settles	advmod
4	once	once	SCONJ	_	7 shared	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shared	nsubj:pass
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shared	aux:pass
7	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 settles	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	settle	present	It					fast property	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	share	present · passive		it					tree rules

Option 4

It stays exactly the same forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stays	nsubj
2	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 same	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stays	xcomp
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 stays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	It					forever, same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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