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Test 11 · ★ · Photography and phone cameras

Kyle takes photos looking down at his little sister. What would make them better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kyle, photos · What happens: take, look down, make · To what, where: photos

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 20 «Photography and phone cameras» 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: Kyle takes photos looking down at his little sister.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 takes	obj
4	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 photos	acl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 sister	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sister	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sister	amod
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looking	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 takes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	Kyle	photos					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme
2	look down	gerund	photos not said here					at Kyle's little sister; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sister=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 would make them better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 make	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would		photos = photo				good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary they=Product

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Zooming in from far away across the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zooming	zoom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Zooming	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 far	case
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Zooming	advmod
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Zooming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	zoom in	gerund				the room		away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across room=Trajectory

Option 2

Turning off the camera to watch her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Turning	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 camera	det
4	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turning	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 watch	mark
6	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Turning	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn off	gerund		the camera					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent camera=Patient
2	watch	to-infinitive		her = she					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

Standing on a chair to go higher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 chair	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chair	det
4	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Standing	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Standing	advcl
7	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund				a chair			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location
2	go	to-infinitive						high property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Getting down to her eye level

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Getting	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 level	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 level	nmod:poss
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 level	compound
6	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Getting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get down	gerund						to her eye level result; down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to level=Result

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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