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Test 1 · ★★★ · The football argument that goes in circles

Girl nearby: "Lads, 'best' and 'greatest' are the same word. You've been arguing with a thesaurus for fifteen minutes." What is she mocking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Girl, You · What happens: be, argue, mock · To what, where: same word

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 170 «The football argument that goes in circles» of the world 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: Girl nearby: "Lads, 'best' and 'greatest' are the same word.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 word	nsubj
2	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	1 Girl	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Lads	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Lads	punct
5	Lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 word	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 best	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 best	punct
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 Lads	parataxis
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 best	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 greatest	cc
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 greatest	punct
12	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 Lads	conj
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 greatest	punct
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 word	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 word	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 word	amod
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 word	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Girl	the same word					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: You've been arguing with a thesaurus for fifteen minutes."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 arguing	nsubj
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 arguing	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 arguing	aux
4	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 thesaurus	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thesaurus	det
7	thesaurus	thesaurus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arguing	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 minutes	case
9	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 minutes	nummod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arguing	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arguing	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 arguing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present · perfect · progressive	You				minute	with a thesaurus	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with thesaurus=Co-Agent

Sentence 3: What is she mocking?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mocking	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mocking	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mocking	nsubj
4	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mocking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	present · progressive	Girl						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ronaldo for being tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ronaldo	Ronaldo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 tall	case
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tall	cop
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ronaldo	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						tall property	tree rules

Option 2

People who read books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 read	nsubj
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 People	acl:relcl
4	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	People	books					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The circle, not the boys' taste in players

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 circle	det
2	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 taste	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 taste	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taste	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 boys	case
8	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 circle	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 players	case
10	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste		the boys			players			nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place

Option 4

Messi for being small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Messi	Messi	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 small	case
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 small	cop
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Messi	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						small property	tree rules

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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