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Test 4 · Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and…

Alfie to his friends: "I watched a 15, it was easy, ratings are rubbish." What's wrong with his idea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, ratings · What happens: watch, be · To what, where: 15, rubbish

This is test 4 of lesson 57 «Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist» 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: Alfie to his friends: "I watched a 15, it was easy, ratings are rubbish."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 friends	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 friends	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friends	nmod:poss
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 watched	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 watched	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 watched	nsubj
8	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 friends	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 15	det
10	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 watched	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 easy	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 easy	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 easy	cop
14	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 watched	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rubbish	punct
16	ratings	rating	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rubbish	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 rubbish	cop
18	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 easy	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 friends	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 friends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch in a quote	past	I	a 15					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 15=Theme
2	is in a quote	past	I not said here					easy property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	ratings	rubbish					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's wrong with his idea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 idea	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 idea	nmod:poss
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with Alfie's idea; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He must have watched a U by mistake

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 watched	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 watched	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 watched	aux
4	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 U	det
6	U	U	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 watched	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 mistake	case
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	must · perfect	He	a U				by mistake	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent u=Theme

Option 2

15 films are always too easy for teenagers to bother with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 films	nummod
2	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 easy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 easy	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 easy	advmod
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 teenagers	case
8	teenagers	teenager	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 easy	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 bother	mark
10	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easy	csubj
11	with	with	ADP	_	10 bother	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	15 films					for teenagers; always, easy property	tree rules
2	bother	to-infinitive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Ratings are about how hard a film is to follow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ratings	rating	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 film	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 film	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	7 film	case
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 film	amod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 film	det
7	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 follow	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 follow	mark
10	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 film	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ratings					about a hard film	tree rules
2	is	present						follow property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Finding it easy doesn't make it right for his age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 make	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Finding	obj
3	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Finding	xcomp
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 age	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 age	nmod:poss
11	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	gerund		it				easy property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	not make	present · do-support	Finding	it				right property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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