Test 3 · Cheating at games and sport
A cartoon shows a hero who wins a race by tying the others' laces together and gets a gold medal. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, hero · What happens: show, win, tie, get, be · To what, where: hero, race, laces, gold medal
This is test 3 of lesson 93 «Cheating at games and sport» 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: A cartoon shows a hero who wins a race by tying the others' laces together and gets a gold medal.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hero | det |
| 5 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 wins | nsubj |
| 7 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hero | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 race | det |
| 9 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wins | obj |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 tying | mark |
| 11 | tying | tie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wins | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 laces | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 others | case |
| 15 | laces | lace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tying | obj |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 tying | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gets | cc |
| 18 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wins | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 medal | det |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 medal | compound |
| 21 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gets | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | a hero | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hero=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | win | present | a hero | a race | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tie | gerund | a hero not said here | the others's laces | together property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Patient | |||
| 4 | get | present | a hero not said here | a gold medal | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer medal=Stimulus |
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 is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The hero should have tied more laces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hero | det |
| 2 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tied | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tied | aux |
| 5 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 laces | amod |
| 7 | laces | lace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tied | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | should · perfect · passive | the hero | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient lace=Result |
Option 2
Nothing; the hero was just clever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 clever | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hero | det |
| 4 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clever | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 clever | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 clever | advmod |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hero | clever property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A win by a trick isn't a real win
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 win | det |
| 2 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 win | nsubj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 trick | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trick | det |
| 5 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 win | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 win | cop |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 win | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 win | det |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 win | amod |
| 10 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a win by a trick | a real win | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win | a trick | nom win «event intransitive»: by=agent |
Option 4
Laces don't matter in real races
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laces | lace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 matter | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 matter | advmod |
| 4 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 races | case |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 races | amod |
| 7 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 matter | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | Laces | real races | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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