Test 8 · Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and…

Cousin from Melbourne: "M's illegal for under-15s here." Put her right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: put · To what, where: Melbourne

This is test 8 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: Cousin from Melbourne: "M's illegal for under-15s here."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Melbourne	case
3	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cousin	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 illegal	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 illegal	punct
6	M	M	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 illegal	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 M	case
8	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cousin	parataxis
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 15s	case
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 15s	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 under	punct
12	15s	15	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	8 illegal	obl
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 15s	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 illegal	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 illegal	punct

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

Sentence 2: Put her right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		Melbourne			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She's right, M is the strictest rating in the whole country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rating	punct
5	M	M	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rating	compound
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rating	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rating	det
8	strictest	strict	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 rating	amod
9	rating	rating	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 country	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 country	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 country	amod
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rating	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	is a	present		the M strictest rating		the whole country			tree rules

Option 2

M means nobody may watch it until midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	M	M	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 watch	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 watch	aux
5	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 watch	obj
7	until	until	ADP	_	8 midnight	case
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	M						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	watch	may	nobody	M			midnight		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

M is only advice; MA15+ is the one with rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	M	M	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 advice	compound
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 advice	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 advice	advmod
4	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 one	nsubj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 MA15	punct
6	MA15	ma15	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	4 advice	appos
7	+	+	SYM	_	6 MA15	compound
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 rules	case
12	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		M advice					tree rules
2	is a	present	M advice	the one				with rules	tree rules

Option 4

M is only for films with music in them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	M	M	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 films	compound
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 films	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 films	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 films	case
5	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 music	case
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 films	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 music	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						for M films; with music in films	tree rules

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