Test 6 · Special effects and stunts
Your little brother asks why the dragon looked at the actor but the actor looked at a ball. What happened?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: little brother, dragon, actor · What happens: ask, look, happen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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 little brother asks why the dragon looked at the actor but the actor looked at a ball.
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 | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 looked | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asks | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 actor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 actor | det |
| 11 | actor | actor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 actor | det |
| 14 | actor | actor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 ball | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ball | det |
| 18 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Your little brother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the dragon | at the actor | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at actor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the actor | at a ball | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ball=Theme |
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 happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The ball was its baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ball | det |
| 2 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 baby | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 baby | cop |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 baby | nmod:poss |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the ball | ball's baby | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The dragon was added later by computer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 added | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 added | aux:pass |
| 4 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 added | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 computer | case |
| 7 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 added | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past · passive | computer | the dragon | late property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
Option 3
The actor was too scared to look at the real dragon on set
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 actor | det |
| 2 | actor | actor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scared | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 scared | advmod |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scared | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 dragon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dragon | amod |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 set | case |
| 13 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dragon | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the actor | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the actor not said here | at the real dragon on set | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dragon=Theme |
Option 4
The dragon was invisible on that day and came back the next
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invisible | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 invisible | cop |
| 4 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invisible | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 invisible | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 next | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dragon | day | invisible property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come back | past | the dragon not said here | the next | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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