Test 6 · ★★ · Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism
You love graffiti and want to practise. What is the wise move?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, wise move · What happens: love, want, practise, be · To what, where: graffiti
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: You love graffiti and want to practise.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | graffiti | graffiti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 love | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 want | cc |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 love | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 practise | mark |
| 7 | practise | practise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | You | graffiti | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer graffiti=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | want | present | You not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | practise not said to happen | to-infinitive | You 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: What is the wise move?
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 | 5 move | det |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 move | amod |
| 5 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the wise move | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Tag bus shelters for practice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tag | tag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bus | compound |
| 2 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shelters | compound |
| 3 | shelters | shelter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 practice | case |
| 5 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shelters | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Spray your school at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spray | spray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 school | nmod:poss |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spray | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spray | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spray | imperative | you not said here | your school | night | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent school=Theme |
Option 3
Paint near the railway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | near | near | ADP | _ | 4 railway | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 railway | det |
| 4 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paint | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Find a legal wall or a class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wall | det |
| 3 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wall | amod |
| 4 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Find | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 class | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 class | det |
| 7 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wall | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | imperative | you not said here | a legal wall or a class | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Topic |
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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