Test 5 · Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet

In a cartoon, a boy learns a hard dance perfectly on his first go. What is more realistic?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: learn, be · To what, where: hard dance, cartoon

This is test 5 of lesson 29 «Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet» 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: In a cartoon, a boy learns a hard dance perfectly on his first go.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learns	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learns	nsubj
7	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dance	det
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dance	amod
10	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learns	obj
11	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	7 learns	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 go	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 go	nmod:poss
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 go	amod
15	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learns	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 learns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	a boy	a hard dance		a cartoon		on boy's first go; perfectly property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Topic

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 more realistic?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 realistic	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 realistic	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 realistic	advmod
4	realistic	realistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 realistic	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						realistic property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Every dancer gets every hard dance right on the very first try

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 dancer	det
2	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 dance	det
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dance	amod
6	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obj
7	right	right	ADV	_	12 try	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 try	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 try	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 first	advmod
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 try	amod
12	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	every dancer	every hard dance		the first try			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dance=Theme on try=Source

Option 2

Hard dances can be learned perfectly just by watching them once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dances	amod
2	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learned	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 learned	aux:pass
5	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 learned	advmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 watching	advmod
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 watching	mark
9	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 learned	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 watching	obj
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 watching	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	can · passive		Hard dances				perfectly property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	watch	gerund		dances = dance				once property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Dance cannot be learned at all, you can either do it or you cannot

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learned	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 learned	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 learned	aux:pass
5	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 learned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 do	advmod
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learned	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 can	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 can	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	conj
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 can	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can · passive		Dance		all			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	do	can	you	Dance				either property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It takes many tries

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	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tries	amod
4	tries	try	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It	many tries					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=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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