Test 7 · ★★★ · The football argument that goes in circles

Tagger: "The base is not real, the base is in your head." What would be fair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: base · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: Tagger, head

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: Tagger: "The base is not real, the base is in your head."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tagger	tagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 real	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 real	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 base	det
5	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 real	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 real	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 real	advmod
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tagger	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 head	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 base	det
11	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 head	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 head	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tagger	appos
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 head	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 head	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	the base	Tagger not said here				real property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	the base			your head			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 be fair?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 fair	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fair	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fair	cop
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fair	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Let the tagger make up a new rule too, so it's even between them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tagger	det
3	tagger	tagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 make	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rule	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rule	amod
8	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	4 make	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 's	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 's	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 's	nsubj
13	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
14	even	even	ADV	_	16 them	advmod
15	between	between	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 's	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	the tagger		tree rules
2	make up	infinitive	the tagger not said here	a new rule		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rule=Pivot
3	be	present	rule		between them = they	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Location

Option 2

Let the boy keep his base this time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 base	nmod:poss
6	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	the boy					tree rules
2	keep	infinitive	the boy not said here	boy's base			time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent base=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Agree on a base before the next game, for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 base	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 base	det
4	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Agree	obl
5	before	before	ADP	_	8 game	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 game	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 game	amod
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Agree	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 everyone	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 everyone	case
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Agree	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	imperative	you not said here				before the next game	for everyone; on a base	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on base=Topic

Option 4

Ban bases from all games forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ban	ban	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bases	compound
2	bases	basis	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 games	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 games	det
5	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bases	nmod
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 bases	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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