Test 9 · Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch
Kalani's friend says documentaries are "boring school stuff". What is fair to say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, documentaries · What happens: say, be · To what, where: boring school stuff · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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: Kalani's friend says documentaries are "boring school stuff".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kalani | Kalani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kalani | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | documentaries | documentary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stuff | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stuff | cop |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 stuff | punct |
| 8 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stuff | amod |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuff | compound |
| 10 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 stuff | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Kalani's friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | documentaries | boring school stuff | tree rules |
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 is fair to say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 fair | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fair | cop |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fair | csubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fair property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Documentaries are only made for teachers to show in their lessons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Documentaries | documentary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 teachers | case |
| 6 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 show | mark |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 lessons | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lessons | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 show | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Documentaries | for teachers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for teacher=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | Documentaries's lessons | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Many are gripping
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gripping | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gripping | aux |
| 3 | gripping | grip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grip | present · progressive | Many | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
All documentaries are boring because that is the rule for making them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 documentaries | det |
| 2 | documentaries | documentary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 boring | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 boring | cop |
| 4 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 rule | mark |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 rule | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rule | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rule | det |
| 9 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boring | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 making | mark |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 rule | acl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 making | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | all documentaries | boring property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the rule | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | the rule not said here | documentaries = documentary | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
Option 4
Real life is never anywhere near as exciting as a cartoon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exciting | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 exciting | cop |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 anywhere | advmod |
| 5 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 near | advmod |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 8 exciting | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 exciting | advmod |
| 8 | exciting | exciting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 cartoon | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cartoon | det |
| 11 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exciting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Real life | as a cartoon; exciting, near 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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