Test 10 · ★★ · Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism
Your cousin says street art is always against the community. What do Ukrainian murals show?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, street art, Ukrainian murals · What happens: say, be, show · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» 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 cousin says street art is always against the community.
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 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 art | compound |
| 5 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 community | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 community | cop |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 community | advmod |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 community | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 community | det |
| 10 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | street art | against the community; always property | 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: What do Ukrainian murals show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 show | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 murals | amod |
| 4 | murals | mural | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 show | nsubj |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | show | present | Ukrainian murals | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Murals are always illegal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murals | mural | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 illegal | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 illegal | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 illegal | advmod |
| 4 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Murals | always, illegal property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Murals are often made with and for the community
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murals | mural | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 made | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 with | cc |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 community | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 community | det |
| 9 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Murals | for the community; often property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for community=Asset |
Option 3
Only tourists like murals, never the people living there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 tourists | advmod |
| 2 | tourists | tourist | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 murals | case |
| 4 | murals | mural | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tourists | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 people | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tourists | conj |
| 9 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 people | acl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 living | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | the people not said here | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Street art always attacks the town and its people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 art | compound |
| 2 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attacks | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 attacks | advmod |
| 4 | attacks | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attacks | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 people | cc |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 people | nmod:poss |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 town | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | present | Street art | the town and art's people | always property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient |
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