Test 11 · Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz
A Delhi kid says, "Nothing here is designed, yaar" ("yaar" means mate). What would a designer point at?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Delhi kid, yaar · What happens: say, design, mean · To what, where: Nothing, mate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 of lesson 40 «Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz» 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: A Delhi kid says, "Nothing here is designed, yaar" ("yaar" means mate).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kid | det |
| 2 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kid | compound |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 designed | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nothing | punct |
| 7 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 Nothing | advmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 designed | aux:pass |
| 10 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 says | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 yaar | punct |
| 12 | yaar | yaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 designed | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 designed | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 means | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 yaar | punct |
| 16 | yaar | yaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | nsubj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 yaar | punct |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | parataxis |
| 19 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | obj |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 means | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a Delhi kid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | design in a quote | present · passive | Nothing | yaar obl | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | yaar | mate | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=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 would a designer point at?
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 | 1 What | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 point | det |
| 4 | designer | designer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 point | compound |
| 5 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 point | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only the teacher's expensive laptop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 laptop | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laptop | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 teacher | case |
| 5 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 laptop | amod |
| 6 | laptop | laptop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only the paintings in the art room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 paintings | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 paintings | det |
| 3 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 6 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | compound |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paintings | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nothing, because schools are not designed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 designed | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 designed | mark |
| 4 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 designed | aux:pass |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 designed | advmod |
| 7 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not design | present · passive | schools | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The chairs, signs and his own backpack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chairs | det |
| 2 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 signs | punct |
| 4 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chairs | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 backpack | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 backpack | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 backpack | amod |
| 8 | backpack | backpack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chairs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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