Test 5 · ★ · Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai,…
Ming's grandpa says simple is the hardest. What would happen if Ming tried to paint a live-looking shrimp in five strokes?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandpa, Ming · What happens: say, be, happen, try, paint, look · To what, where: looking shrimp, five strokes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Ming's grandpa says simple is the hardest.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grandpa | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ming | case |
| 3 | grandpa | grandpa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | xcomp |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hardest | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hardest | det |
| 8 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 says | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ming's grandpa | simple property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | hard property | 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 would happen if Ming tried to paint a live-looking shrimp in five strokes?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 tried | mark |
| 5 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 paint | mark |
| 8 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shrimp | det |
| 10 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 looking | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 live | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 shrimp | amod |
| 13 | shrimp | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paint | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 strokes | case |
| 15 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 strokes | nummod |
| 16 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 paint | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | try a condition, not said to happen | past | Ming | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | paint not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ming not said here | a looking shrimp | five strokes | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent shrimp=Theme in stroke=Destination | |||
| 4 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It would be perfect the very first time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 perfect | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 perfect | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 perfect | cop |
| 4 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 first | advmod |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 perfect | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | It | time | perfect property | tree rules |
Option 2
It would be easy, as it's only shrimps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 easy | expl |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | cop |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shrimps | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 shrimps | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shrimps | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shrimps | cop |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 shrimps | advmod |
| 10 | shrimps | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 easy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | as shrimps | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It would most likely be much harder than it looks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 harder | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 harder | aux |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 7 harder | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 harder | cop |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 harder | advmod |
| 7 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 looks | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looks | nsubj |
| 10 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 harder | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | It | hard, likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
The ink would refuse to stick to the paper at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ink | det |
| 2 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 refuse | aux |
| 4 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stick | mark |
| 6 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 refuse | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 paper | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 paper | det |
| 9 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stick | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 stick | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | would | the ink | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not stick | to-infinitive | the ink not said here | all | to the paper | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at all=Destination |
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