Test 6 · ★ · Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there
A cartoon shows a museum selling its Mona Lisa to the richest kid. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, museum · What happens: show, sell, be · To what, where: museum, Mona Lisa, richest kid
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 17 «Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there» 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 a museum selling its Mona Lisa to the richest kid.
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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 museum | det |
| 5 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | selling | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 museum | acl |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Lisa | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Mona | Mona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lisa | compound |
| 9 | Lisa | Lisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 selling | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 kid | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kid | det |
| 12 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 kid | amod |
| 13 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 selling | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | a museum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent museum=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | sell | gerund | a museum not said here | cartoon's Mona Lisa | the richest kid | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lisa=Theme to kid=Recipient |
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 wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Museums sell their famous art at the gift shop on Sundays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Museums | museum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sell | nsubj |
| 2 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 art | nmod:poss |
| 4 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 art | amod |
| 5 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sell | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 shop | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shop | det |
| 8 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shop | compound |
| 9 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sell | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Sundays | case |
| 11 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 sell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | Museums | Museums's famous art | the gift shop | sunday | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent art=Theme at shop=Asset |
Option 2
Kids are the only people who buy art
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 people | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 buy | nsubj |
| 7 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kids | the only people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | buy | present | the only people | art | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Theme |
Option 3
Nothing, museums sell paintings every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 sell | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | museums | museum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sell | nsubj |
| 4 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sell | obj |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sell | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | museums | paintings | day | Nothing vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Public museum art is kept for everyone, not sold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 art | amod |
| 2 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 art | compound |
| 3 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | aux:pass |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 everyone | case |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 kept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sold | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 sold | advmod |
| 10 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 everyone | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · passive | Public museum art | for everyone | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not sell | participle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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