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Test 8 · The kid who is always on the bench

«I'm never good enough, why even bother playing» says a kid who's usually a sub. What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: not be, bother, play, say, be · To what, where: sub · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 70 «The kid who is always on the bench» 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: «I'm never good enough, why even bother playing» says a kid who's usually a sub.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 good	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 says	ccomp
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bother	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 bother	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 bother	advmod
10	bother	bother	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 good	parataxis
11	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 bother	xcomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 kid	det
15	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 sub	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sub	cop
18	usually	usually	ADV	_	20 sub	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sub	det
20	sub	sub	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kid	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	a kid = kid					enough, good property	tree rules
2	bother in a quote	infinitive							tree rules
3	play in a quote	gerund							vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	a kid						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	a kid	a sub				usually 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.

Sentence 2: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Exercise only counts for starters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counts	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 counts	advmod
3	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 starters	case
5	starters	starter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	Exercise					for starters	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Only the best players should play sport at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 players	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 players	det
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 players	amod
4	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 play	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 play	aux
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	should	the best players	sport		all			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fun, friends and fitness are the point

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 point	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 friends	punct
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fun	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fitness	cc
5	fitness	fitness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fun	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 point	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 point	det
8	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fun and friends and fitness	the point					tree rules

Option 4

Subs don't count as players

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Subs	sub	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 count	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 count	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 count	advmod
4	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 players	case
6	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not count	present · do-support	Subs					as players	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as player=Attribute

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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