Test 5 · How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing

Which statement about books and their films is fair?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement, books · What happens: be, film

This is test 5 of lesson 22 «How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fair	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 books	case
4	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 statement	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 films	cc
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 films	nmod:poss
7	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 books	conj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fair	cop
9	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which statement about books and books's films					fair property	tree rules
2	film		books = book						nom film «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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.

The options

Option 1

Films are proven by scientists to be better every single time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 proven	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 proven	aux:pass
3	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 scientists	case
5	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 proven	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	8 better	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 better	cop
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 proven	conj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 better	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present · passive	scientists	Films					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	scientists not said here				time	good property	tree rules

Option 2

Books are proven by scientists to be better every single time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 proven	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 proven	aux:pass
3	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 scientists	case
5	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 proven	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	8 better	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 better	cop
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 proven	conj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 better	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present · passive	scientists	Books					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	scientists not said here				time	good property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is argued which is better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 argued	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 argued	aux:pass
3	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 better	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 better	cop
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 argued	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present · passive		It					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
2	is	present						good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody has ever made a film from a book, they are always new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 film	det
6	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 book	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 book	det
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 new	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 new	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 new	cop
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 new	advmod
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · perfect · passive		Nobody		a book	ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary film=Product from book=Material
2	is	present	they					always, new property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/t5/