Test 8 · Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch

Which is a good reason to keep your phone away during a film?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, keep away · To what, where: good reason, phone

This is test 8 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reason	acl
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 phone	nmod:poss
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 keep	advmod
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 film	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 film	det
13	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a good reason					tree rules
2	keep away	to-infinitive		your phone			during a film	away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme

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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

You will catch the clues

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 catch	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clues	det
5	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	future	You	the clues					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Theme

Option 2

Cinemas confiscate phones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cinemas	cinema	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 confiscate	nsubj
2	confiscate	confiscate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 confiscate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confiscate	present	Cinemas	phones					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Phones make films play faster, so you miss the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 play	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 miss	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 miss	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 miss	nsubj
9	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 miss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Phones	films		tree rules
2	play	infinitive	films not said here		fast property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	miss	present	you	the end		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus

Option 4

The film stops playing if anyone's phone is switched on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 film	det
2	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 switched	mark
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 phone	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 anyone	case
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 switched	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 switched	aux:pass
10	switched	switch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 playing	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 switched	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	present	the film		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	play	gerund	the film not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	switch on a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		anyone's phone	vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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