Test 7 · Special effects and stunts
Grace says fake blood is "ew but yum". Why might old fake blood be yummy?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grace, fake blood, old fake blood · What happens: say, be · To what, where: ew · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 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: Grace says fake blood is "ew but yum".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blood | amod |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ew | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ew | cop |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ew | punct |
| 7 | ew | ew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 yum | cc |
| 9 | yum | yum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ew | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ew | punct |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Grace | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | fake blood | ew but yum | tree rules |
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: Why might old fake blood be yummy?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 yummy | advmod |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 yummy | aux |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blood | amod |
| 4 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blood | amod |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yummy | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 yummy | cop |
| 7 | yummy | yummy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 yummy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | might | old fake blood | yummy property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It was chocolate syrup, which looked right in black and white
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 | 4 syrup | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 syrup | cop |
| 3 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 syrup | compound |
| 4 | syrup | syrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 syrup | acl:relcl |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looked | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 black | case |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 right | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 white | cc |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | chocolate syrup | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | chocolate syrup | right property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Actors liked to drink it for fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Actors | actor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 liked | nsubj |
| 2 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 drink | mark |
| 4 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 liked | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drink | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fun | case |
| 7 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drink | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | Actors | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drink not said to happen | to-infinitive | Actors not said here | it | for fun | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 3
It was real blood mixed with sugar
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 | 4 blood | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blood | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blood | amod |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 blood | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sugar | case |
| 7 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mixed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | real blood | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mix | participle | real blood not said here | with sugar | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with sugar=Co-Patient |
Option 4
It was strawberry jam on every film
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 | 4 jam | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jam | cop |
| 3 | strawberry | strawberry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jam | amod |
| 4 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 film | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 film | det |
| 7 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jam | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | strawberry jam | every film | tree rules |
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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