Test 7 · Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch
Your friend from Glasgow is "pure feart" ("feart" means scared) after a horror film. Which is a good thing to remind her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, feart · What happens: be, mean, remind · To what, where: pure feart, good thing, feart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 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 friend from Glasgow is "pure feart" ("feart" means scared) after a horror film.
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 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feart | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Glasgow | case |
| 4 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 friend | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feart | cop |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 feart | punct |
| 7 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feart | amod |
| 8 | feart | feart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 feart | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 feart | punct |
| 12 | feart | feart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | nsubj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 feart | punct |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feart | parataxis |
| 15 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 means | xcomp |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 film | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 film | det |
| 19 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 film | compound |
| 20 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 feart | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Your friend from Glasgow | pure feart | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | feart | after a horror film | scared 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: Which is a good thing to remind her?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 remind | mark |
| 7 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 remind | iobj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a good thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | remind speech: other | to-infinitive | feart | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Monsters are real but only at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 real | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 real | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 night | cc |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 night | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 real | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Monsters | real property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It is made up, with actors, make-up and effects
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 | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 actors | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 actors | case |
| 7 | actors | actor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 up | punct |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 make | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 effects | cc |
| 13 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | present · passive | It | with actors | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | make up | infinitive | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
She must watch it again to stop the fear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watch | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 watch | aux |
| 3 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watch | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 watch | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stop | mark |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 watch | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fear | det |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stop | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | must | She | it | again | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive | the fear | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fear=Eventuality |
Option 4
Being scared means she is a baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 scared | cop |
| 2 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 baby | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 baby | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 baby | det |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | scared property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | scared | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | she | a baby | tree rules |
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