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Test 9 · Ruth, and David and Goliath

My mate wants to borrow my dad's huge football boots for the match. What would David's story say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, dad, story · What happens: want, borrow, be, say · To what, where: huge football boots · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 8 «Ruth, and David and Goliath» of the religion ethics 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: My mate wants to borrow my dad's huge football boots for the match.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 borrow	mark
5	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boots	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 boots	cop
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boots	amod
10	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boots	compound
11	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 borrow	ccomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 match	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 match	det
14	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 borrow	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	My mate						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	borrow not said to happen	to-infinitive	My mate not said here					for the match	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	my dad	huge football boots					tree rules

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 would David's story say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 David	case
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	David's story						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Use what fits you and the gifts you have

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 fits	nsubj
3	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Use	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fits	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gifts	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gifts	det
7	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 you	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fits	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	fit	present		you					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	have	present	you						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Never play against bigger kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 play	advmod
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 kids	case
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 kids	amod
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play	imperative	you not said here					against bigger kids	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Always copy whatever the strongest player on the team does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 copy	advmod
2	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 copy	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 player	det
5	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 player	amod
6	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whatever	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 team	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 team	det
9	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 player	nmod
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 whatever	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here					always property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the strongest player on the team	whatever					tree rules

Option 4

Big boots always win games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boots	amod
2	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 win	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 win	advmod
4	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	Big boots	games				always property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality

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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