Test 1 · ★★ · Modern art: "my little brother could do that"
Your mate goes, "art has to be made by hand or it don't count, innit." Who argued otherwise?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, art, hand · What happens: go, have, make, not count, innit, argue
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Modern art: "my little brother could do that"» 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 mate goes, "art has to be made by hand or it don't count, innit."
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 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 6 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 made | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 has | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 count | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 count | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 count | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 count | advmod |
| 17 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 innit | punct |
| 19 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 count | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Your mate | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | art | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | hand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | not count in a quote | do-support | art | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | innit in a quote | infinitive | art not said here | 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: Who argued otherwise?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 argued | nsubj |
| 2 | argued | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 2 argued | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 argued | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | past | otherwise property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Leonardo, with his notebooks of machines and drawings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leonardo | Leonardo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leonardo | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 notebooks | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 notebooks | nmod:poss |
| 5 | notebooks | notebook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Leonardo | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 machines | case |
| 7 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 notebooks | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drawings | cc |
| 9 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 machines | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Michelangelo, with the Sistine ceiling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michelangelo | Michelangelo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Michelangelo | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ceiling | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ceiling | det |
| 5 | Sistine | Sistine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ceiling | compound |
| 6 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Michelangelo | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Duchamp, with a shop-bought object shown as art
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duchamp | Duchamp | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 object | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 object | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 object | det |
| 5 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bought | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 shop | punct |
| 7 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 object | amod |
| 8 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Duchamp | appos |
| 9 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 object | acl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 art | case |
| 11 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | participle | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | show | participle | a bought object not said here | as art | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Van Gogh, with his sunflowers painted for a friend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Van | Van | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 painted | nsubj |
| 2 | Gogh | Gogh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Van | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sunflowers | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sunflowers | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sunflowers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sunflowers | sunflower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Van | conj |
| 7 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 friend | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 friend | det |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 painted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | Van and his sunflowers | for a friend | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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