Test 7 · ★ · Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai,…
Your uncle reckons "women didn't paint in the old days". What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: uncle, women · What happens: reckon, not paint, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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: Your uncle reckons "women didn't paint in the old days".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reckons | nsubj |
| 3 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 paint | punct |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 paint | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 paint | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 paint | advmod |
| 8 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reckons | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 days | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 days | amod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 paint | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 paint | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | Your uncle | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not paint in a quote | past · do-support | women | day | vn image_impression-25.1 «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 is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Many did but were blocked or forgotten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 blocked | cc |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blocked | aux:pass |
| 5 | blocked | block | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 did | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 forgotten | cc |
| 7 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 blocked | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Many | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | block | past · passive | Many not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | forget | participle | Many not said here | tree rules |
Option 2
He's right, no women painted before 1900
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 women | punct |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 women | det |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 right | parataxis |
| 7 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 women | acl |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 1900 | case |
| 9 | 1900 | 1900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 painted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | no women not said here | 1900 | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent before 1900=Destination |
Option 3
Women were only allowed to paint shrimps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 paint | mark |
| 6 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | shrimps | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 paint | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past · passive | Women | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | paint not said to happen | to-infinitive | Women not said here | shrimps | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent shrimp=Destination |
Option 4
Women painted, but only men's portraits
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 painted | nsubj |
| 2 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 portraits | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 portraits | cc |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 men | advmod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 portraits | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 men | case |
| 8 | portraits | portrait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 painted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | Women | men's portraits | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | portray | men | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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