Test 9 · ★ · Moving, swimming and sport

Your friend's mum buys sports drinks for a 20-minute park kickabout "for energy". What do you think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, you · What happens: buy, think · To what, where: sports drinks

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Your friend's mum buys sports drinks for a 20-minute park kickabout "for energy".

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	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mum	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 friend	case
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buys	nsubj
5	buys	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drinks	compound
7	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 buys	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 kickabout	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 kickabout	det
10	20-minute	20-minute	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	12 kickabout	amod
11	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kickabout	compound
12	kickabout	kickabout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buys	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 kickabout	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 energy	case
15	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kickabout	nmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 kickabout	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 buys	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present	Your friend's mum	sports drinks				for a 20-minute park kickabout for energy	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent drink=Theme for kickabout=Beneficiary

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 do you think?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 think	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	you						vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She's right, kids need them to have enough energy to run at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 need	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 have	mark
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 need	xcomp
10	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 energy	amod
11	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 run	mark
13	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	She			right property	tree rules
2	need	present	kids	them = they			tree rules
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	them = they not said here	enough energy			tree rules
4	run	to-infinitive	enough energy not said here		all		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 2

They'd make the team win for sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 team	det
5	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 win	nsubj
6	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 sure	case
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 win	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	They						tree rules
2	win	present	the team					for sure	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for sure=Beneficiary

Option 3

She should buy energy drinks instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 buy	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 buy	aux
3	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drinks	compound
5	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 buy	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 buy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	should	She	energy drinks				instead property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Water would be fine, the drinks are mostly sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sugar	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 drinks	det
7	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sugar	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sugar	cop
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	10 sugar	advmod
10	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Water					fine property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the drinks	sugar				mostly property	tree rules

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