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Test 9 · ★★ · Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism

Ellie's two neighbours shout at each other about the graffiti. What is a good way to think it through?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two neighbours · What happens: shout, be, think through · To what, where: each, good way, way

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Ellie's two neighbours shout at each other about the graffiti.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 neighbours	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ellie	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 neighbours	nummod
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shout	nsubj
5	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 shout	obl
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 graffiti	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 graffiti	det
11	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shout	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shout	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Ellie's two neighbours			each		about the graffiti	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about graffiti=Topic

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 a good way to think it through?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 think	obj
9	through	through	ADP	_	7 think	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a good way					tree rules
2	think through speech: other	to-infinitive		way					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Paint over it yourself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Paint	nmod
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Paint	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Listen to both sides before deciding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 sides	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sides	det
4	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Listen	obl
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 deciding	mark
6	deciding	decide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Listen	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here					to both sides	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to side=Theme
2	decide	gerund	you not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Ignore both of them for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Ignore	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 both	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Ignore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	both					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme

Option 4

Pick whoever shouts the loudest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shouts	advcl
2	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 shouts	nsubj
3	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 loudest	det
5	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 shouts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	infinitive	whoever not said here						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shout speech: express	present	whoever	the loudest					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loud=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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