Test 5 · ★ · Scary films, nightmares and sad endings
Dad grumbles: "Bloody trailer before a kids' film, scared her half to death." What is he cross about?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, kids · What happens: grumble, film, be · To what, where: Bloody trailer
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 56 «Scary films, nightmares and sad endings» of the adult life 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: Dad grumbles: "Bloody trailer before a kids' film, scared her half to death."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grumbles | nsubj |
| 2 | grumbles | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 trailer | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 trailer | punct |
| 5 | Bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trailer | amod |
| 6 | trailer | trailer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grumbles | obj |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 film | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kids | det |
| 9 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 film | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 kids | case |
| 11 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trailer | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 half | punct |
| 13 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 half | amod |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 half | nmod:poss |
| 15 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 trailer | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 half | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 half | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 half | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grumble speech: other | present | Dad | Bloody trailer | before a kids's film | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trailer=Topic | |||
| 2 | film in a quote | a kids | nom film «communication transitive»: poss=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 he cross about?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 cross | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cross | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cross | nsubj |
| 4 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 cross | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cross | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Dad | cross property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
The kids' film itself was far too long
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kids | det |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 film | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 kids | case |
| 4 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 long | nsubj |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 4 film | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 long | cop |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 long | advmod |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the kids's film film | far, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | film | the kids | nom film «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A trailer was too scary for the children watching
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 trailer | det |
| 2 | trailer | trailer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scary | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scary | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 scary | advmod |
| 5 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 children | det |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scary | obl |
| 9 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 scary | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a trailer | for the children; scary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | a trailer not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The trailer gave away the ending of the film
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trailer | det |
| 2 | trailer | trailer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADP | _ | 3 gave | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ending | det |
| 6 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 film | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 film | det |
| 9 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ending | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give away | past | the trailer | the ending of the film | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ending=Theme | ||||
| 2 | end | the film | nom ending «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
His daughter was badly hurt by something at the cinema
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux:pass |
| 4 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 something | case |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 hurt | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 cinema | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cinema | det |
| 10 | cinema | cinema | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 something | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past · passive | His daughter | by something; badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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