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Test 4 · ★ · Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai,…

A cartoon shows Michelangelo snoozing on his back on a bed while painting. What should it show?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, bed · What happens: show, snooze · To what, where: Michelangelo, back

This is test 4 · ★ 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: A cartoon shows Michelangelo snoozing on his back on a bed while painting.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Michelangelo	Michelangelo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
5	snoozing	snooze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 shows	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 back	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snoozing	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bed	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bed	det
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snoozing	obl
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 painting	mark
13	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snoozing	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	Michelangelo					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent michelangelo=Recipient clause=Topic
2	snooze	gerund	a cartoon not said here			cartoon's back		on a bed	vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=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 should it show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	should	bed						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Him painting from a hot-air balloon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Him	him	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 painting	amod
2	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	8 balloon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 balloon	det
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 air	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 balloon	compound
8	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painting	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Him painting the ceiling with his feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 painting	nsubj
2	painting	paint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ceiling	det
4	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painting	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feet	nmod:poss
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 painting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	gerund	Him = he	the ceiling				with his feet	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent ceiling=Destination with foot=Theme

Option 3

Him painting on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Him	him	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 painting	amod
2	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painting	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Him standing on a scaffold, head bent back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 standing	nsubj
2	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 scaffold	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 scaffold	det
5	scaffold	scaffold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 standing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 head	punct
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scaffold	appos
8	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 head	acl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 bent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	Him = he			a scaffold			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on scaffold=Location
2	bend back	participle		head not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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