Test 5 · ★ · Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see
Jake says his mate's drawing is "giving cartoon" (looks like a cartoon). What is the best advice for the mate?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, drawing, mate, best advice · What happens: say, give, look, draw, be · To what, where: cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 12 «Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see» of the arts 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: Jake says his mate's drawing is "giving cartoon" (looks like a cartoon).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mate | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drawing | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 mate | case |
| 6 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 giving | aux |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 says | ccomp |
| 10 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 looks | punct |
| 13 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 cartoon | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cartoon | det |
| 16 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looks | obl |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 looks | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · progressive | Jake's mate's drawing | cartoon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cartoon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | present | like a cartoon | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | draw | Jake's mate | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: 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 the best advice for the mate?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 advice | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 advice | amod |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 mate | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mate | det |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 advice | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best advice for the mate | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Stop drawing anime for ever and never go back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Stop | xcomp |
| 3 | anime | anime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drawing | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 ever | case |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 drawing | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 go | cc |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stop | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | draw | gerund | you not said here | anime | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent anime=Result for ever=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | not go back | infinitive | you not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Draw with his eyes closed so it looks more real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Draw | obl |
| 5 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Draw | xcomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 looks | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looks | nsubj |
| 8 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Draw | advcl |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 real | advmod |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looks | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | imperative | you not said here | with his eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | close | participle | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | look | present | it | real property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Only ever draw cartoons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 draw | advmod |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 draw | advmod |
| 3 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 draw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | imperative | you not said here | cartoons | ever | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cartoon=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Practise both his favourite style and real things
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Practise | practise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 style | det:predet |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 style | nmod:poss |
| 4 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 style | amod |
| 5 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Practise | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 things | cc |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 style | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | practise | imperative | you not said here | his favourite style and real things | tree rules |
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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