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Test 3 · Special effects and stunts

A kid in Liverpool says, "Old effects were dead rubbish, la" ("la" means mate). What is fair to say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, Old effects, la · What happens: say, be, mean · To what, where: dead rubbish, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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: A kid in Liverpool says, "Old effects were dead rubbish, la" ("la" means mate).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Liverpool	case
4	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kid	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rubbish	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 rubbish	punct
8	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 effects	amod
9	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rubbish	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rubbish	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rubbish	amod
12	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 la	punct
14	la	la	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rubbish	conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 rubbish	punct
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 means	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 la	punct
18	la	la	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 means	nsubj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 la	punct
20	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	parataxis
21	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 means	obj
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 means	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a kid in Liverpool						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	Old effects	dead rubbish and la					tree rules
3	mean	present	la	mate					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic

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 fair to say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 fair	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	cop
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fair	csubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fair property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Old films had no special effects of any kind at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 films	amod
2	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 effects	det
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 effects	amod
6	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 kind	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 kind	det
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 effects	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Old films	no special effects of any kind		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient
2	effect			any kind					nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They were clever for their time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clever	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 time	nmod:poss
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clever	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They				time	clever property	tree rules

Option 3

They were rubbish and nobody uses any of them in films today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rubbish	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rubbish	cop
3	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 uses	cc
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 uses	nsubj
6	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rubbish	acl:relcl
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 uses	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 any	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 films	case
11	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 uses	obl
12	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rubbish	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	rubbish			today		tree rules
2	use	present	nobody	any		films			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Old effects were secretly made by early computers in the 1930s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 effects	amod
2	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 computers	case
7	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 computers	amod
8	computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 1930s	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 1930s	det
11	1930s	1930	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive	early computers	Old effects		the 1930s		secretly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=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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