Test 10 · Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch
Your family argues about the film every week. What would most likely help?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: family · What happens: argue, help
This is test 10 of lesson 26 «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» 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 family argues about the film every week.
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 family | nmod:poss |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 argues | nsubj |
| 3 | argues | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 film | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 film | det |
| 6 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 argues | obl |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 argues | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 argues | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | Your family | week | about the film | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about film=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 would most likely help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 help | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 5 help | advmod |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | likely property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Taking turns to choose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 choose | mark |
| 4 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Taking | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | turns | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | |||||
| 2 | choose | to-infinitive | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Watching three films at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 films | nummod |
| 3 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Watching | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Watching | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | three films | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme |
Option 3
Letting the dog choose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 choose | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Letting | obj |
| 4 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | gerund | the dog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | |||||
| 2 | choose | imperative | you not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Never watching films again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 watching | advmod |
| 2 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 watching | obj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 watching | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not watch | gerund | films | again | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=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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