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Test 10 · The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline

Callum's teammates start making more mistakes after he yells at them. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: teammates, Callum · What happens: start, make, yell · To what, where: more mistakes

This is test 10 of lesson 68 «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» 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: Callum's teammates start making more mistakes after he yells at them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Callum	Callum	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 teammates	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Callum	case
3	teammates	teammate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 start	nsubj
4	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 start	xcomp
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 mistakes	amod
7	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 making	obj
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 yells	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 yells	nsubj
10	yells	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 making	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 yells	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	Callum's teammates						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make	gerund	Callum's teammates not said here	more mistakes					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product
3	yell speech: express	present	Callum					at teammates = teammate	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at they=Stimulus

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Their confidence drops and nerves cause errors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 drops	nmod:poss
2	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	compound
3	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cause	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nerves	cc
5	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drops	conj
6	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	errors	error	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Their confidence drops and nerves	errors					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition error=Patient

Option 2

Yelling makes the ball heavier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		the ball				heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ball=Product

Option 3

They can't hear the referee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 referee	det
6	referee	referee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	They	the referee					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer referee=Stimulus

Option 4

They are trying to annoy him back by playing badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 annoy	mark
5	annoy	annoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 annoy	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 annoy	advmod
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 playing	mark
9	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 annoy	advcl
10	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 playing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	They						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	annoy back not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	play	gerund	They not said here					badly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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