Test 7 · The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline
«my coach calls me thick every week, that's just footy innit». Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coach, that · What happens: call, be · To what, where: me, footy innit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 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: «my coach calls me thick every week, that's just footy innit».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 calls | punct |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 coach | nmod:poss |
| 3 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | nsubj |
| 4 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 calls | obj |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 calls | xcomp |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thick | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 innit | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 innit | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 innit | cop |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 innit | advmod |
| 13 | footy | footy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 innit | amod |
| 14 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | parataxis |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 innit | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 calls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert in a quote | present | my coach | me | thick property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | footy innit | 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.
Sentence 2: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, but only if he swears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 swears | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 swears | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 swears | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 swears | advmod |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 swears | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 swears | nsubj |
| 7 | swears | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present | he | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yes, all coaches have to do it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 have | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 coaches | det |
| 4 | coaches | coach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | all coaches | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | all coaches not said here | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, that's bullying; tell the welfare officer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 bullying | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bullying | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 bullying | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bullying | cop |
| 5 | bullying | bullying | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bullying | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 officer | det |
| 9 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 officer | compound |
| 10 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | bullying | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | the welfare officer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent officer=Recipient |
Option 4
Yes, it toughens players up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 toughens | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 toughens | nsubj |
| 4 | toughens | toughen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 toughens | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 toughens | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toughen up | present | it | players | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent player=Patient |
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