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Test 10 · ★★ · Modern art: "my little brother could do that"

Jess's uncle asks who'd pay millions for a banana. Which is a fair view?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: uncle · What happens: ask, pay, be · To what, where: millions, fair view · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ 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: Jess's uncle asks who'd pay millions for a banana.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jess	Jess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jess	case
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 pay	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	aux
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asks	ccomp
8	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pay	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 banana	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 banana	det
11	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Jess's uncle						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay	would		millions				for a banana	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent million=Asset for banana=Theme

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: Which is a fair view?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 view	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 view	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 view	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 view	amod
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 view	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a fair view					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nobody has ever paid anything at all for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 paid	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 paid	advmod
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 paid	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 anything	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · perfect · passive		Nobody			ever		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP PP.theme»: subject=Recipient anything=Asset for it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some see a joke about money and art, others think the market is silly

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 money	case
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joke	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 art	cc
8	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 money	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 think	punct
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 think	nsubj
11	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 market	det
13	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 silly	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 silly	cop
15	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Some	a joke				about money and art	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	present	others						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the market					silly property	tree rules

Option 3

Bananas are always that expensive in galleries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 expensive	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 expensive	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 expensive	advmod
4	that	that	ADV	_	5 expensive	advmod
5	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 galleries	case
7	galleries	gallery	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 expensive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bananas			galleries		always, expensive, that property	tree rules

Option 4

Everyone agrees it was worth every penny, and nobody has ever laughed at it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 agrees	nsubj
2	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 worth	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	cop
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 agrees	ccomp
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 penny	det
7	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worth	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughed	cc
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 laughed	nsubj:pass
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 laughed	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 laughed	advmod
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 agrees	parataxis
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Everyone						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					worth property	tree rules
3	laugh	present · perfect · passive		nobody		penny	ever		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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