Test 6 · ★ · Photography and phone cameras
Lucy says it's "mad blurry" (very blurry). What should she try next time?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lucy, it · What happens: say, be, try · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Lucy says it's "mad blurry" (very blurry).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucy | Lucy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 blurry | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 blurry | cop |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 blurry | punct |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blurry | amod |
| 7 | blurry | blurry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 blurry | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 blurry | punct |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 blurry | advmod |
| 11 | blurry | blurry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 blurry | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Lucy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | it | blurry property | 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 should she try next time?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 try | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 try | nsubj |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 try | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | should | Lucy | time | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Zoom in even more next time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoom | zoom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 next | advmod |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Zoom | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Shout at the bird to keep still
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 bird | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shout | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Shout | advcl |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 keep | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | imperative | you not said here | at the bird | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Shake the phone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 phone | det |
| 3 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shake | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | imperative | you not said here | the phone | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent phone=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Move closer instead of zooming
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Move | advmod |
| 3 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 zooming | mark |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 instead | fixed |
| 5 | zooming | zoom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Move | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | imperative | you not said here | close property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | zoom | gerund | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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