Test 5 · Dances of the world and dancing at parties
In a cartoon, everyone at a disco stops and stares at one kid dancing. What is more realistic?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: stop, stare, be · To what, where: cartoon
This is test 5 of lesson 30 «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» 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, everyone at a disco stops and stares at one kid dancing.
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 | 9 stops | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 stops | nsubj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 disco | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 disco | det |
| 8 | disco | disco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 everyone | nmod |
| 9 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stares | cc |
| 11 | stares | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stops | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 dancing | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 dancing | nummod |
| 14 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dancing | compound |
| 15 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stares | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stops | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | everyone | a cartoon | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location | ||||
| 2 | stare | present | everyone not said here | at one kid dancing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dancing=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.
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
Nobody ever dances at discos, they just stand and talk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 dances | nsubj |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 dances | advmod |
| 3 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 discos | case |
| 5 | discos | disco | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dances | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stand | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stand | nsubj |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 stand | advmod |
| 9 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dances | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 talk | cc |
| 11 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stand | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | present | Nobody | discos | ever | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at disco=Location | |||
| 2 | stand | present | discos = disco | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | talk | present | discos = disco not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The music stops each time a new person starts to dance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 music | det |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stops | nsubj |
| 3 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stops | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 person | amod |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 starts | nsubj |
| 9 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stops | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 dance | mark |
| 11 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 starts | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | the music | time | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | start | present | a new person | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | dance | to-infinitive | a new person not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Others are busy dancing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dancing | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dancing | cop |
| 3 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dancing | amod |
| 4 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Others | busy dancing | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Everyone always stops and watches the shy kid when he dances
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 stops | advmod |
| 3 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 watches | cc |
| 5 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stops | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kid | det |
| 7 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kid | amod |
| 8 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watches | obj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 dances | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dances | nsubj |
| 11 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stops | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Everyone | always property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | watch | present | Everyone not said here | the shy kid | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dance | present | kid | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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