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Test 5 · ★★ · Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground

Your football team eats bananas before every match "for goals". What's sensible?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: football team · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: bananas

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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: Your football team eats bananas before every match "for goals".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 team	nmod:poss
2	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 team	compound
3	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eats	obj
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 match	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 match	det
8	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eats	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 match	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 goals	case
11	goals	goal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eats	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 goals	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Your football team	bananas			before every match	for goals	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=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's sensible?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Let it go; rituals can be fun and bananas are a fine snack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 fun	punct
5	rituals	ritual	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fun	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fun	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 fun	cop
8	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 snack	cc
10	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 snack	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 snack	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 snack	det
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 snack	amod
14	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fun	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	go	infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	can	rituals					fun property	tree rules
4	is a	present	bananas	a fine snack					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Eat ten bananas to score ten goals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bananas	nummod
3	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Eat	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 score	mark
5	score	score	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Eat	advcl
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 goals	nummod
7	goals	goal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 score	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	ten bananas					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient
2	score	to-infinitive	you not said here	ten goals					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Theme

Option 3

Tell the coach the team is stupid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coach	det
3	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 team	det
5	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stupid	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stupid	cop
7	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the coach					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient
2	is	present	the team					stupid property	tree rules

Option 4

Ban bananas because they're a myth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ban	ban	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bananas	compound
2	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 myth	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 myth	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 myth	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 myth	det
7	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bananas	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bananas = banana	a myth					tree rules

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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