Test 2 · Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons

What would happen if Nina bumped the table between every photo?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nina · What happens: happen, bump · To what, where: table

This is test 2 of lesson 23 «Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 bumped	mark
5	Nina	Nina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bumped	nsubj
6	bumped	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bumped	obj
9	between	between	ADP	_	11 photo	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 photo	det
11	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 table	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bump a condition, not said to happen	past	Nina	the table				between every photo	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Patient

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

Nothing at all, because the app fixes every bump by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 fixes	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fixes	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 fixes	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 app	det
7	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fixes	nsubj
8	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 bump	det
10	bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fixes	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 itself	case
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 fixes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	present	Nothing	every bump				by app	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bump=Patient

Option 2

Her film would look much smoother and more like a real cartoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 film	nmod:poss
2	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 smoother	advmod
6	smoother	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 look	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 more	cc
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 smoother	conj
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 cartoon	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cartoon	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cartoon	amod
12	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	Her film					like a real cartoon; smooth property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	film		Her = she						nom film «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would look jumpy

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 look	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 look	aux
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	jumpy	jumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	It					jumpy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

The Lego figures would vanish from some of the photos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 figures	det
2	Lego	Lego	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 figures	compound
3	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 vanish	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 vanish	aux
5	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 some	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 vanish	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 photos	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 photos	det
10	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 some	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	the Lego figures			some			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from some=Initial_Location

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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