Test 10 · ★ · Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai,…
Kwame's cousin says only neat art becomes famous. Whose story shows otherwise?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, neat art, story · What happens: say, become, show · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 16 «Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...)» 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: Kwame's cousin says only neat art becomes famous.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kwame | Kwame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kwame | case |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 art | advmod |
| 6 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 art | amod |
| 7 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 becomes | nsubj |
| 8 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 9 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 becomes | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Kwame's cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | become | present | neat art | famous property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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: Whose story shows otherwise?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 2 story | nmod:poss |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 3 shows | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | story | otherwise property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Leonardo, who only wrote poems and songs, never paintings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leonardo | Leonardo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrote | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 wrote | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 wrote | advmod |
| 5 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wrote | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 songs | cc |
| 8 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 poems | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 paintings | punct |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 paintings | advmod |
| 11 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 poems | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Leonardo | poems and songs and paintings | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Basquiat, whose raw style became highly valued
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basquiat | Basquiat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 style | punct |
| 3 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 style | nmod:poss |
| 4 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 style | amod |
| 5 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Basquiat | appos |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 8 valued | advmod |
| 8 | valued | value | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 became | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Basquiat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | value | participle | Basquiat not said here | highly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
O'Keeffe, who only ever painted tiny neat dots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | O'Keeffe | O'Keeffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 painted | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 painted | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 painted | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 painted | advmod |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 painted | advmod |
| 6 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dots | amod |
| 8 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dots | amod |
| 9 | dots | dot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 painted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | O'Keeffe | tiny neat dots | ever | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent dot=Destination |
Option 4
Michelangelo, who never painted a thing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michelangelo | Michelangelo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 painted | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 painted | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 painted | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 painted | advmod |
| 5 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 painted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not paint | past | Michelangelo | a thing | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Destination |
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