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Test 10 · ★★ · Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no eithe…

Ruby's friend: "So hide-and-seek with no hiding? That's just seek, Ruby. That's just looking at people." What is he laughing at?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: That, Ruby · What happens: hide, seek, be, look, laugh

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 189 «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» 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: Ruby's friend: "So hide-and-seek with no hiding?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ruby	case
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 friend	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 hide	punct
6	So	so	ADV	_	7 hide	advmod
7	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 friend	parataxis
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 seek	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seek	cc
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hide	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 hiding	case
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 hiding	det
14	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seek	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 friend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide in a quote	infinitive							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seek in a quote	infinitive						with no hiding	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: That's just seek, Ruby.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 seek	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seek	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 seek	advmod
4	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Ruby	punct
6	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seek	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seek	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					seek property	tree rules

Sentence 3: That's just looking at people."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 looking	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looking	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · progressive	That					at people	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at people=Theme

Sentence 4: What is he laughing at?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 laughing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 laughing	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughing	nsubj
4	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	4 laughing	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 laughing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · progressive	Ruby						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1

Ruby's really terrible hiding skills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 skills	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ruby	case
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 terrible	advmod
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 skills	amod
5	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skills	compound
6	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Playing outside at break in the cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 Playing	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 break	case
4	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cold	det
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund				break		in the cold; outside property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The whole game of hide-and-seek itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 game	amod
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seek	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 hide	case
5	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 game	nmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 seek	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 seek	cc
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 and	punct
9	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 seek	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	infinitive	the whole game of hide	game					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Changing the rules mid-game to win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mid-game	det
3	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mid-game	compound
4	mid-game	mid-game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Changing	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 win	mark
6	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Changing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	gerund		the rules mid-game					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mid-game=Patient
2	win	to-infinitive							vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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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