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Test 11 · ★★ · When the teacher gets it wrong

The coach says stretching prevents every injury. What's a fair view?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coach, fair view · What happens: say, stretch, prevent, be · To what, where: injury · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 33 «When the teacher gets it wrong» 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: The coach says stretching prevents every injury.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coach	det
2	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 prevents	nsubj
5	prevents	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 injury	det
7	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prevents	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the coach						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stretch	gerund							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	prevent	present		every injury					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer injury=Theme

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 a fair view?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 view	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 view	amod
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a fair view						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Moving warm-ups work better, but stretching won't hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 ups	amod
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 warm	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	nsubj
5	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 work	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hurt	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 hurt	cc
9	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hurt	nsubj
10	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hurt	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hurt	advmod
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 work	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	work	present	Moving warm ups					well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stretch	gerund							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	not hurt	future							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Only running fast prevents injury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 running	advmod
2	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 prevents	advcl
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 running	advmod
4	prevents	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prevents	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund						fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	prevent	present		injury					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer injury=Theme

Option 3

Warming up is a total waste of time, just start playing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warming	warm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 waste	csubj
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Warming	compound:prt
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 waste	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 waste	det
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 waste	amod
6	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 time	case
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waste	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 start	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 start	advmod
11	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 waste	parataxis
12	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 start	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm up	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	Warming	a total waste			time		tree rules
3	start	infinitive							vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	play	gerund							vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Stretching causes every injury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 causes	nsubj
2	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 injury	det
4	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 causes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	gerund							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	cause	present		every injury					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=Patient

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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