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Test 8 · ★★ · Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism

Sam's dad says "it might be a Banksy". Why can't they just ask Banksy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, it, they · What happens: say, be, not ask · To what, where: Banksy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Sam's dad says "it might be a Banksy".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sam	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Banksy	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Banksy	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 Banksy	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 Banksy	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Banksy	det
10	Banksy	Banksy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Banksy	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Sam's dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	might	it	a Banksy					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: Why can't they just ask Banksy?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 ask	advmod
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ask	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ask	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ask	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 ask	advmod
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Banksy	Banksy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	can	they		Banksy				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent banksy=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He lives on the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 Moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	He			the Moon			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moon=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His name and face are kept secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 name	nmod:poss
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 face	cc
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 name	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	aux:pass
6	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		His name and face				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	name		His = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He only speaks Latin to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 speaks	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 speaks	advmod
3	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 speaks	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 speaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	He	Latin				to people	tree rules

Option 4

He died back in the 1500s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 died	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 1500s	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 1500s	det
6	1500s	1500	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	2 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die back	past	He					in the 1500s	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1500=Attribute

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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