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Test 8 · Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons

Ryan says the four fingers are a mistake. Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ryan, four fingers · What happens: say, be · To what, where: mistake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Ryan says the four fingers are a mistake.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ryan	Ryan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fingers	det
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 fingers	nummod
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mistake	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mistake	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mistake	det
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ryan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the four fingers	a mistake					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: 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

Animators really forgot one finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animators	animator	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forgot	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 forgot	advmod
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 finger	nummod
5	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	Animators	one finger					tree rules

Option 2

Five fingers cannot be drawn on screens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fingers	nummod
2	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drawn	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 drawn	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 drawn	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 drawn	aux:pass
6	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 screens	case
8	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not draw	can · passive		Five fingers		screens			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on screen=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is a choice that saves time and looks neater

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	4 choice	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 choice	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 choice	det
4	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 saves	nsubj
6	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 choice	acl:relcl
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saves	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looks	cc
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 saves	conj
10	neater	neat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a choice					tree rules
2	save	present	a choice				time		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	look	present	a choice not said here					neat property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Cartoon characters lost a finger in an accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 characters	compound
2	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 finger	det
5	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 accident	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 accident	det
8	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Cartoon characters	a finger		a accident			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Eventuality

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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