Test 2 · The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline
«ref's against us, every call goes their way, swear down». What's more likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ref · What happens: go, swear down, be · To what, where: way
This is test 2 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: «ref's against us, every call goes their way, swear down».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 goes | punct |
| 2 | ref | ref | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 ref | case |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ref | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 goes | punct |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 call | det |
| 8 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 goes | nsubj |
| 9 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 goes | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swear | punct |
| 13 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 goes | parataxis |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 swear | compound:prt |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 swear | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present | ref against us | their way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swear down in a quote | infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 more likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 likely | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The ref was paid by the other team before the game
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ref | det |
| 2 | ref | ref | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paid | aux:pass |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 team | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 team | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 team | amod |
| 8 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 game | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 game | det |
| 11 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past · passive | the other team | the ref | before the game | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
One ref, a hard angle; mistakes go both ways
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 ref | nummod |
| 2 | ref | ref | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 angle | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 angle | det |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 angle | amod |
| 6 | angle | angle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ref | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 8 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | nsubj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 ways | det |
| 11 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | mistakes | both ways | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Refs always favour the away team
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Refs | ref | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 favour | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 favour | advmod |
| 3 | favour | favour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 team | det |
| 5 | away | away | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 team | amod |
| 6 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 favour | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | favour | present | Refs | the away team | always property | tree rules |
Option 4
The ref can't see anything at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ref | det |
| 2 | ref | ref | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 see | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | can | the ref | anything | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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