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Test 12 · ★★ · Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no eithe…

In a cartoon a referee carries the goal further away every time a player shoots. What does the cartoon show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: referee, player · What happens: carry, shoot, do · To what, where: goal, cartoon, time

This is test 12 · ★★ 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: In a cartoon a referee carries the goal further away every time a player shoots.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carries	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 referee	det
5	referee	referee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carries	nsubj
6	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goal	det
8	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carries	obj
9	further	further	ADV	_	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	6 carries	advmod
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carries	obl:unmarked
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 player	det
14	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shoots	nsubj
15	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 time	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 carries	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	a referee	the goal		a cartoon	time	away property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goal=Value in cartoon=Location
2	shoot	present	a player	every time not said here					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme

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 does the cartoon show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 show	det
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	compound
5	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

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

Moving the goalposts: changing the test once it's met

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goalposts	det
3	goalposts	goalpost	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Moving	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 changing	punct
5	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Moving	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 test	det
7	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changing	obj
8	once	once	SCONJ	_	11 met	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 met	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 met	aux
11	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 changing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund		the goalposts					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=Theme
2	change	gerund		the test					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Patient
3	meet	present · passive	test						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A fair way to make football harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 way	det
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 way	acl
6	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
7	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		football				hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset football=Product

Option 3

A straw man about football

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	compound
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 football	case
5	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod

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

Option 4

An either-or about goals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 goals	det
2	either	either	CCONJ	_	6 goals	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 either	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 goals	cc
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 goals	case
6	goals	goal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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