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Test 9 · Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons

Your Gen Z cousin says Wallace and Gromit is "lowkey a flex" ("lowkey" means kind of, "a flex" means showing off skill). What makes it so impressive?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Z cousin, Wallace, lowkey, flex · What happens: say, be, mean, show off, make · To what, where: lowkey, kind, skill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: Your Gen Z cousin says Wallace and Gromit is "lowkey a flex" ("lowkey" means kind of, "a flex" means showing off skill).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cousin	nmod:poss
2	Gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Z	compound
3	Z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cousin	compound
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Wallace	Wallace	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lowkey	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Gromit	cc
8	Gromit	Gromit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wallace	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lowkey	cop
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lowkey	punct
11	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 flex	det
13	flex	flex	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lowkey	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 flex	punct
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 lowkey	punct
17	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	nsubj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 lowkey	punct
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 flex	parataxis
20	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 kind	fixed
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 means	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 flex	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 flex	det
25	flex	flex	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 means	nsubj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 flex	punct
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 means	conj
28	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 means	xcomp
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 showing	compound:prt
30	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 showing	obj
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your Z cousin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Wallace and Gromit	lowkey					tree rules
3	mean	present	lowkey	kind					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Topic
4	mean	present	a flex						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	show off not said to happen	gerund	a flex not said here	skill					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent skill=Recipient

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 makes it so impressive?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 impressive	advmod
5	impressive	impressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		skill				impressive property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product

The options

Option 1

The dog is real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 real	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Every tiny move is photographed by hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 move	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 move	amod
3	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 photographed	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 photographed	aux:pass
5	photographed	photograph	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 hand	case
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 photographed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	photograph	present · passive	hand	every tiny move					vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

It was made with one button on a computer in an afternoon

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 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 button	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 button	nummod
6	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 computer	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 computer	det
9	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl:agent
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 afternoon	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 afternoon	det
12	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive	a computer	It			afternoon	with one button	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It was filmed in one quick take with the models on strings

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 filmed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 filmed	aux:pass
3	filmed	film	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 take	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 take	nummod
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 take	amod
7	take	take	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 filmed	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 models	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 models	det
10	models	model	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 filmed	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 strings	case
12	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 filmed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	film	past · passive		It		one quick take		with the models; on strings	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in take=Destination

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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