Test 11 · Special effects and stunts

Why might seeing a man in a rubber suit help a scared child?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: see, help · To what, where: man, scared child, rubber suit

This is test 11 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 seeing	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 seeing	aux
3	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 help	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seeing	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 suit	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 suit	det
8	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suit	compound
9	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	obl
10	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
12	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 child	amod
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	might		a man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	help	present			a scared child	a rubber suit			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary

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

It proves monsters live in film studios

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	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	ccomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 studios	case
6	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 studios	compound
7	studios	studio	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	live	present	monsters			film studios			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in studio=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It shows the monster was made by people, not real

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	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monster	det
4	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shows	ccomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl:agent
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 real	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 real	advmod
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past · passive	people	the monster					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product

Option 3

It makes the monster even scarier

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monster	det
4	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 scarier	advmod
6	scarier	scarey	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

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

Option 4

It teaches him to make his own monster suit

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	2 teaches	nsubj
2	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 teaches	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 teaches	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 suit	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 suit	amod
8	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suit	compound
9	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present	It		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make	to-infinitive		his own monster suit					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset suit=Product

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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