Test 6 · ★ · Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai,…
Sofia's brother calls Kahlo vain. What would be a fairer first step?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother · What happens: call, be · To what, where: fairer first step · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Sofia's brother calls Kahlo vain.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sofia | Sofia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sofia | case |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | nsubj |
| 4 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Kahlo | Kahlo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 vain | compound |
| 6 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 calls | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 calls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Sofia's brother | vain property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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 would be a fairer first step?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 step | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 step | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 step | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 step | det |
| 5 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 step | amod |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 step | amod |
| 7 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 step | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | a fairer first step | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Learn about her life before judging her work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Learn | obl |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 judging | mark |
| 6 | judging | judge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Learn | advcl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 work | nmod:poss |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 judging | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | imperative | you not said here | about her life | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about life=Topic | ||||
| 2 | judge | gerund | you not said here | her work | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent work=Value | ||||
| 3 | work | her = she | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
Only judge her paintings of flowers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 judge | advmod |
| 2 | judge | judge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 paintings | nmod:poss |
| 4 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 judge | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 flowers | case |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 paintings | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | imperative | you not said here | her paintings of flowers | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent painting=Value |
Option 3
Ignore her life and judge only the faces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ignore | ignore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 life | nmod:poss |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ignore | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 judge | cc |
| 5 | judge | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ignore | conj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 faces | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 faces | det |
| 8 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 judge | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | imperative | you not said here | her life | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 2 | judge | present | you not said here | the faces | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent face=Value |
Option 4
Say all self-portraits are vain, whoever paints them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 portraits | det |
| 3 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 portraits | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 self | punct |
| 5 | portraits | portrait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 vain | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 vain | cop |
| 7 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 paints | punct |
| 9 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 paints | nsubj |
| 10 | paints | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 vain | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 paints | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | all self portraits | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | paint | present | whoever | portraits = portrait | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
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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