Test 5 · ★ · Photography and phone cameras
A cartoon shows a phone zooming into a bird a mile away perfectly sharp. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, phone · What happens: show, zoom, be · To what, where: phone, mile
This is test 5 · ★ 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: A cartoon shows a phone zooming into a bird a mile away perfectly sharp.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 phone | det |
| 5 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | zooming | zoom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 phone | acl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 bird | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 zooming | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mile | det |
| 11 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 zooming | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 sharp | advmod |
| 13 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 14 sharp | advmod |
| 14 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mile | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | a phone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent phone=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | zoom | gerund | a phone not said here | a mile | into a bird | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bird=Destination |
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 wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, digital zoom is always perfect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 zoom | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | digital | digital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 zoom | amod |
| 4 | zoom | zoom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 perfect | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 perfect | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 perfect | advmod |
| 7 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing digital zoom | always, perfect property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Digital zoom loses detail and goes blurry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Digital | digital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 zoom | amod |
| 2 | zoom | zoom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loses | nsubj |
| 3 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loses | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 goes | cc |
| 6 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 loses | conj |
| 7 | blurry | blurry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | Digital zoom | detail | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | present | Digital zoom not said here | blurry property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Phones cannot zoom at all, not even a little
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 zoom | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 zoom | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 zoom | advmod |
| 4 | zoom | zoom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 zoom | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 little | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 little | advmod |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 little | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 zoom | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not zoom | can | Phones | all | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |
Option 4
Birds cannot be photographed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 photographed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 photographed | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 photographed | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 photographed | aux:pass |
| 5 | photographed | photograph | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not photograph | can · passive | Birds | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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