Test 8 · Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts
Mia's teacher says Comic Sans is fine for a party invite but not a serious report. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, Comic · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 of lesson 33 «Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts» 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: Mia's teacher says Comic Sans is fine for a party invite but not a serious report.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mia | case |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Comic | Comic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fine | nsubj |
| 6 | Sans | Sans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Comic | flat |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fine | cop |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 invite | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 invite | det |
| 11 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 invite | compound |
| 12 | invite | invite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fine | obl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 report | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 report | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 report | det |
| 16 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 report | amod |
| 17 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 invite | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mia's teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Comic | for a party invite but a serious report; fine property | 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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Serious reports can only use one font
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 reports | amod |
| 2 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 use | advmod |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 font | nummod |
| 7 | font | font | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | can | Serious reports | one font | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent font=Patient |
Option 2
Party invites must be handwritten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 invites | compound |
| 2 | invites | invite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 handwritten | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 handwritten | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 handwritten | aux:pass |
| 5 | handwritten | handwrite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | handwrite | must · passive | Party invites | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Fonts carry a mood and suit different jobs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fonts | font | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mood | det |
| 4 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 suit | cc |
| 6 | suit | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 carry | conj |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 jobs | amod |
| 8 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 suit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Fonts | a mood | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | suit | present | Fonts not said here | different jobs | tree rules |
Option 4
Comic Sans is illegal in reports
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Comic | Comic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 illegal | nsubj |
| 2 | Sans | Sans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Comic | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 illegal | cop |
| 4 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 reports | case |
| 6 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 illegal | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Comic | reports | illegal 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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