Test 11 · Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch
A kid says a PG film is fine because "it's got no swearing". What else should be checked?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid, PG film, film · What happens: say, be, get, check · To what, where: swearing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 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: A kid says a PG film is fine because "it's got no swearing".
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 | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 film | det |
| 5 | PG | PG | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 film | compound |
| 6 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fine | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fine | cop |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 got | mark |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 fine | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 swearing | det |
| 15 | swearing | swearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a kid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a PG film | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · passive | film | no swearing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swearing=Stimulus |
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 else should be checked?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 checked | obl |
| 2 | else | else | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 checked | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 checked | aux:pass |
| 5 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 checked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | should · passive | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP» |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Whether it has frightening or violent scenes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 3 has | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 scenes | amod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 violent | cc |
| 6 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 frightening | conj |
| 7 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | it | frightening scenes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Patient |
Option 2
Whether it was made in America
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 4 made | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 America | case |
| 6 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | it | America | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 3
Whether the actors are famous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 famous | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 actors | det |
| 3 | actors | actor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 famous | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 famous | cop |
| 5 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the actors | famous property | tree rules |
Option 4
Whether the poster is colourful
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 colourful | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 poster | det |
| 3 | poster | poster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 colourful | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 colourful | cop |
| 5 | colourful | colourful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the poster | colourful property | 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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