Test 7 · Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit
Your friend copies three sentences about Frida Kahlo word for word for homework. What would be the honest fix?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: copy, be · To what, where: three sentences, honest fix
This is test 7 of lesson 35 «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» 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: Your friend copies three sentences about Frida Kahlo word for word for homework.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 copies | nsubj |
| 3 | copies | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sentences | nummod |
| 5 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 copies | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 word | case |
| 7 | Frida | Frida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Kahlo | compound |
| 8 | Kahlo | Kahlo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 word | compound |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sentences | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 word | case |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 homework | case |
| 13 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 word | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 copies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | present | Your friend | three sentences | about Kahlo word for word for homework | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme about word=Destination |
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 would be the honest fix?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fix | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fix | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fix | det |
| 5 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fix | amod |
| 6 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | the honest fix | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Change the font and colour so that it looks different from the website
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Change | change | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 font | det |
| 3 | font | font | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Change | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 colour | cc |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 font | conj |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 9 looks | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 so | fixed |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looks | nsubj |
| 9 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Change | advcl |
| 10 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looks | xcomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 website | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 website | det |
| 13 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looks | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | imperative | you not said here | the font and colour | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent font=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | present | colour | from the website; different property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from website=Theme |
Option 2
Use another website
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 website | det |
| 3 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Use | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | another website | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent website=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Rewrite it in her own words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rewrite | rewrite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Rewrite | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rewrite | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rewrite | imperative | you not said here | it | her own words | tree rules | |||
| 2 | word | her = she | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Add one sentence of her own at the end so the teacher cannot tell
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sentence | nummod |
| 3 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Add | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 own | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 own | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sentence | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Add | obl |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 15 tell | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 teacher | det |
| 12 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 tell | advmod |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Add | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | one sentence of her own | at the end | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient | |||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | can | the teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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