Test 6 · Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons

Granda in Cork reckons hand-drawn cartoons are "old hat, sure nobody does that now" ("old hat" means out of date). Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Granda, drawn cartoons, nobody, old hat · What happens: reckon, draw, be, do, mean · To what, where: old hat, that, date · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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

Sentence 1: Granda in Cork reckons hand-drawn cartoons are "old hat, sure nobody does that now" ("old hat" means out of date).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Granda	Granda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Cork	case
3	Cork	Cork	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Granda	nmod
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hand	punct
7	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cartoons	amod
8	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hat	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hat	cop
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 hat	punct
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hat	amod
12	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sure	punct
14	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hat	amod
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 does	nsubj
16	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sure	ccomp
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 does	obj
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 does	advmod
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 sure	punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 hat	punct
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hat	amod
23	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	nsubj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 hat	punct
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reckons	parataxis
26	out	out	ADP	_	28 date	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 date	case
28	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	obl
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	reckon	present	Granda in Cork				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	draw	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	drawn cartoons	old hat			tree rules
4	do in a quote	present	nobody	that		now	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
5	mean	present	old hat		date		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Hand drawing was banned in studios when computers came in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drawing	compound
2	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 banned	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 banned	aux:pass
4	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 studios	case
6	studios	studio	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 banned	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
8	computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 banned	advcl
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · passive		Hand drawing		studios			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come in	past	computers						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He is right, no film anywhere is drawn by hand any more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drawn	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 film	det
6	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drawn	nsubj:pass
7	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 film	advmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 drawn	aux:pass
9	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 right	parataxis
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 hand	case
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drawn	obl
12	any	any	ADV	_	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 drawn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	draw	present · passive	hand	no film					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

Hand-drawn films are not allowed to win any big film prizes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drawn	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Hand	punct
3	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 films	amod
4	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 allowed	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 allowed	aux:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 allowed	advmod
7	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 win	mark
9	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 allowed	xcomp
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 prizes	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 prizes	amod
12	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 prizes	compound
13	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	draw	participle			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not allow	present · passive		drawn films	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	win not said to happen	to-infinitive	drawn films not said here	any big film prizes	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ghibli is famous for hand-drawn films

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ghibli	ghibli	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 famous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 famous	cop
3	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 films	case
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hand	punct
7	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 films	amod
8	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 famous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ghibli					for drawn films; famous property	tree rules
2	draw	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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