Test 6 · ★ · Moving, swimming and sport
Coach is in a hurry and yells "keep going!" but your knee hurts sharply. What's the wise thing to say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Coach, knee, wise thing · What happens: be, yell, keep, go, hurt, say · To what, where: hurry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 5 «Moving, swimming and sport» 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: Coach is in a hurry and yells "keep going!" but your knee hurts sharply.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurry | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurry | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hurry | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hurry | det |
| 5 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 yells | cc |
| 7 | yells | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurry | conj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 yells | xcomp |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 hurts | cc |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 knee | nmod:poss |
| 15 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurts | nsubj |
| 16 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | conj |
| 17 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 16 hurts | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Coach | a hurry | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | yell speech: express | present | Coach not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | infinitive | Coach not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | gerund | Coach not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hurt | present | your knee | sharply property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 the wise thing to say?
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the wise thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the wise thing not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
"This is stupid, I quit forever."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stupid | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 stupid | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stupid | cop |
| 4 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 quit | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 quit | nsubj |
| 7 | quit | quit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stupid | parataxis |
| 8 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 7 quit | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stupid | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stupid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | This | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | quit in a quote | present | I | forever property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nothing, keep running till it stops hurting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Nothing | acl |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keep | xcomp |
| 5 | till | till | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 running | obl |
| 7 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | hurting | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stops | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | run | gerund | till it | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stop | present | Nothing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | hurt | gerund | Nothing not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
"Pain means it's working, push harder!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| 2 | Pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 working | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 working | aux |
| 6 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 means | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 push | punct |
| 8 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 working | parataxis |
| 9 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 push | advmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 push | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 working | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | Pain | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | work in a quote | present · progressive | Pain | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | push in a quote | infinitive | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
"I'm not giving up, but my knee hurts sharp, can I sit one out?"
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 giving | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 giving | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 giving | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 giving | advmod |
| 5 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sit | csubj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 giving | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hurts | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 hurts | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 knee | nmod:poss |
| 10 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hurts | nsubj |
| 11 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 giving | advcl |
| 12 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hurts | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 giving | punct |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 sit | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sit | nsubj |
| 16 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sit | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 sit | compound:prt |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 sit | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give up in a quote | present · progressive | I | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hurt in a quote | present | my knee | sharp property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | sit out in a quote | can | I | one | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
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