Test 11 · Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime

Tom from Leeds thinks the paper fish was made by a printer. What is the correction?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, correction · What happens: think, make, be · To what, where: paper fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 31 «Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime» 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: Tom from Leeds thinks the paper fish was made by a printer.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thinks	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Leeds	case
3	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tom	nmod
4	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	compound
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux:pass
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thinks	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 printer	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 printer	det
12	printer	printer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Tom from Leeds						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	past · passive		the paper fish				by a printer	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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 the correction?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 correction	det
4	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the correction						tree rules

The options

Option 1

It was really cut by a robot in a factory in Xi'an

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	4 cut	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux:pass
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 cut	advmod
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 robot	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 robot	det
7	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 factory	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 factory	det
10	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Xi'an	case
12	Xi'an	Xi'an	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past · passive	a robot	It		a factory		in Xi'an	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

Option 2

It was drawn with a pen

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 drawn	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drawn	aux:pass
3	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 pen	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pen	det
6	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past · passive		It				with a pen	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody in the world is able to cut paper that finely by hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 able	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 world	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nobody	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cut	mark
8	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 finely	nsubj
11	finely	finely	ADV	_	8 cut	advmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 hand	case
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nobody					able property	tree rules
2	cut	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here	paper				by hand; finely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset paper=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Skilled cutters work by hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skilled	skilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cutters	amod
2	cutters	cutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 hand	case
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Skilled cutters					by hand	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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