Test 4 · ★★ · Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism
A film hero sprays a masterpiece on train tracks and jumps clear at the last second. What is the truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: film hero, truth · What happens: spray, jump, be · To what, where: masterpiece, train tracks
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: A film hero sprays a masterpiece on train tracks and jumps clear at the last second.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hero | det |
| 2 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hero | compound |
| 3 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprays | nsubj |
| 4 | sprays | spray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 masterpiece | det |
| 6 | masterpiece | masterpiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprays | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 tracks | case |
| 8 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tracks | compound |
| 9 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprays | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 jumps | cc |
| 11 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprays | conj |
| 12 | clear | clear | ADV | _ | 11 jumps | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 second | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 second | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 second | amod |
| 16 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jumps | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spray | present | a film hero | a masterpiece | train tracks | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent masterpiece=Theme on track=Destination | |||
| 2 | jump | present | a film hero not said here | second | clear property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: What is the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The rails are safe to touch, even the electric ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rails | det |
| 2 | rails | rail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 safe | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 safe | cop |
| 4 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 touch | mark |
| 6 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 safe | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ones | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 ones | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ones | det |
| 10 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ones | amod |
| 11 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 safe | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the rails | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | to-infinitive | the rails not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Trains slow down for artists
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 slow | nsubj |
| 2 | slow | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 slow | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 artists | case |
| 5 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 slow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow down | present | Trains | for artists | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
You can always jump clear in time if you are fit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 jump | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 jump | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 jump | advmod |
| 4 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jump | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | obl |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 fit | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 fit | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fit | cop |
| 11 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jump | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | can | You | time | always, clear property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | fit property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Modern trains are quiet and fast, and people have died this way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 trains | amod |
| 2 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 quiet | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 quiet | cop |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fast | cc |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quiet | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 died | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 died | cc |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 died | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 died | aux |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 quiet | conj |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 died | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Modern trains | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Modern trains not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | die | present · perfect | people | this way | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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