Test 5 · Special effects and stunts
Your cousin from Ohio says Titanic's crew "sank a real ship, no cap". Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, crew · What happens: say, sink, be · To what, where: real ship · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 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 cousin from Ohio says Titanic's crew "sank a real ship, no cap".
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 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cousin | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Titanic | Titanic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 crew | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Titanic | case |
| 8 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sank | nsubj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 crew | punct |
| 10 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ship | det |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ship | amod |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sank | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cap | punct |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 cap | det |
| 16 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ship | appos |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cap | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your cousin from Ohio | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sink in a quote | past | Titanic's crew | a real ship | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |
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 · ← Mova's choice
They sank a real old ship in the Atlantic Ocean to film it
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 | 2 sank | nsubj |
| 2 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ship | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ship | amod |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sank | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Ocean | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ocean | det |
| 9 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ocean | compound |
| 10 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ship | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 film | mark |
| 12 | film | film | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sank | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 film | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | They | a real old ship | the Atlantic Ocean | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | |||
| 2 | film | to-infinitive | They not said here | ship | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2
A bathtub and a toy boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bathtub | det |
| 2 | bathtub | bathtub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 boat | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 5 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boat | compound |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bathtub | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
They built part of it and used models
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 | 2 built | nsubj |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 built | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 part | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 used | cc |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 built | conj |
| 8 | models | model | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 used | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | They | part of part | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset part=Product | ||||
| 2 | use | past | They not said here | models | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent model=Patient |
Option 4
They filmed the real Titanic as it was sinking back in 1912
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 | 2 filmed | nsubj |
| 2 | filmed | film | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Titanic | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Titanic | amod |
| 5 | Titanic | Titanic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 filmed | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 sinking | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sinking | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sinking | aux |
| 9 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 filmed | advcl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 sinking | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1912 | case |
| 12 | 1912 | 1912 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 sinking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | film | past | They | the real Titanic | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent titanic=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sink back | past · progressive | Titanic | 1912 | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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