Test 1 · Special effects and stunts

Your mate goes, "If it looks easy in the film, I can do it off the shed, sorted." What is the right answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, I, right answer · What happens: go, look, do, sort, be · To what, where: mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 25 «Special effects and stunts» 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 mate goes, "If it looks easy in the film, I can do it off the shed, sorted."

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	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 looks	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looks	nsubj
8	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 do	advcl
9	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 looks	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 film	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 film	det
12	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 easy	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looks	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sorted	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	20 shed	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shed	det
20	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sorted	punct
22	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	mate		easy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	do in a quote	can	I	mate	off the shed	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	sort in a quote	past				vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: 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: What is the right answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the right answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, as long as he watches the scene ten times first to learn it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 long	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 watches	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 watches	nsubj
7	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 scene	det
9	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watches	obj
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 times	nummod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 watches	obl:unmarked
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 watches	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 learn	mark
14	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 long	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present	he	the scene			time	first property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Theme
2	learn	to-infinitive		scene					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Only if a friend films it so he can see what went wrong after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 films	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 films	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 friend	det
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 films	compound
5	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 films	obj
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 see	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 films	acl
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 see	ccomp
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 went	xcomp
14	after	after	ADP	_	12 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	he	friend films not said here					tree rules
2	go	past						wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, because films only ever show things that are safe for anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 show	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 show	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 show	mark
4	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 show	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 show	advmod
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 show	advmod
7	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 show	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 safe	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 safe	cop
11	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	acl:relcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 anyone	case
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 safe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	films	things			ever		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient
2	is	present	things					for anyone; safe property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, stunts need training and gear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 stunts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	stunts	stunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gear	cc
7	gear	gear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 training	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	stunts	training and gear					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot training=Theme

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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