Test 2 · I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark
What would happen if Ollie replayed the miss a hundred more times in bed?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ollie · What happens: happen, replay · To what, where: miss
This is test 2 of lesson 24 «I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark» of the reflection 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 replayed | mark |
| 5 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replayed | nsubj |
| 6 | replayed | replay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 miss | det |
| 8 | miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replayed | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hundred | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 times | nummod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 times | amod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 replayed | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bed | case |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 times | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | replay a condition, not said to happen | past | Ollie | the miss | time | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miss=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.
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
It would keep the hurt fresh without teaching him anything new
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hurt | det |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 teaching | mark |
| 8 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 keep | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 teaching | obj |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 teaching | obj |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 anything | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | would | It | the hurt | fresh property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Theme | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other | gerund | anything | him = he | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Topic |
Option 2
The final would be replayed in real life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 final | det |
| 2 | final | final | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replayed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 replayed | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replayed | aux:pass |
| 5 | replayed | replay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 life | amod |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replayed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | replay | would · passive | the final | real life | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
His memory would delete the penalty forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 memory | nmod:poss |
| 2 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delete | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 delete | aux |
| 4 | delete | delete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 penalty | det |
| 6 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delete | obj |
| 7 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 4 delete | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delete | would | His memory | the penalty | forever property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penalty=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
He would score the penalty in his dream and so feel he had won the cup
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 score | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 score | aux |
| 3 | score | score | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 penalty | det |
| 5 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 score | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dream | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dream | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 score | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 feel | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 feel | advmod |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 score | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 won | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 won | aux |
| 14 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 feel | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cup | det |
| 16 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 won | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | score | would | He | the penalty | his dream | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penalty=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | He not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | win | past · perfect | he | the cup | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | dream | his = he | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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