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Test 7 · ★ · People and society — communities, work, money and rules

In a class game, one boy keeps changing the rules so that he always wins. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one boy, boy · What happens: keep, change, win, be · To what, where: class game, rules

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 58 «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» 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 class game, one boy keeps changing the rules so that he always wins.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 game	det
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 game	compound
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeps	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 game	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 boy	nummod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeps	nsubj
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keeps	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rules	det
11	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 changing	obj
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 wins	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wins	nsubj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 wins	advmod
16	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 changing	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	one boy			a class game			tree rules
2	change	gerund	one boy not said here	the rules					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient
3	win	present	boy					always property	vn succeed-74-2 «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: 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

Games should not have rules at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	should	Games	rules		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient

Option 2

The other children should stop playing forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 playing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	should	the other children						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	play	gerund	the other children not said here					forever property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He is just better at the game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 better	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 better	advmod
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 game	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			the game		good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Rules must be the same for everyone to be fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 same	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 same	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 same	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 same	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	10 fair	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fair	cop
10	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 same	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	Rules					for everyone; same property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	Rules not said here					fair property	tree rules

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