Test 4 · Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch
Your cousin from Leeds goes, "Spoiler: the dog dies, soz" ("soz" means sorry). What would have been kind?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, dog, soz · What happens: go, die, mean, be · To what, where: Spoiler, soz
This is test 4 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 cousin from Leeds goes, "Spoiler: the dog dies, soz" ("soz" means sorry).
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 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cousin | nmod |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Spoiler | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Spoiler | punct |
| 8 | Spoiler | spoiler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 dies | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dies | nsubj |
| 12 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 goes | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 soz | punct |
| 14 | soz | soz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dies | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 soz | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 soz | punct |
| 18 | soz | soz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 soz | punct |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 goes | parataxis |
| 21 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 means | xcomp |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Your cousin from Leeds | Spoiler | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die in a quote | present | the dog | soz | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | soz | sorry property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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 have been kind?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kind | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 kind | cop |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would · perfect | kind property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Telling everyone else the ending even faster so it is fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 fair | csubj |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Telling | iobj |
| 3 | else | else | ADV | _ | 2 everyone | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ending | det |
| 5 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 faster | advmod |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Telling | advmod |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 1 Telling | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Telling | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fair | cop |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the ending | everyone | fast property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | Telling | fair property | tree rules |
Option 2
Only spoiling the films that he hates, never the good ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 spoiling | advmod |
| 2 | spoiling | spoil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 films | det |
| 4 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spoiling | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 hates | nsubj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hates | nsubj |
| 7 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 films | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ones | punct |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 ones | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ones | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spoiling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | gerund | the films | the good ones obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hate | present | the films | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Keeping the ending secret
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 secret | det |
| 3 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 secret | compound |
| 4 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keeping | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | the ending secret | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
Option 4
Waiting a day first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Waiting | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Waiting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | day | first property | vn exist-47.1 «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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