Test 6 · Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz
In a cartoon, a girl stops the film and sees only one frozen picture, then says films are magic. What is really true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, films · What happens: stop, see, freeze, say, be · To what, where: film, cartoon, one frozen picture · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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: In a cartoon, a girl stops the film and sees only one frozen picture, then says films are magic.
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 | 7 stops | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stops | nsubj |
| 7 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 film | det |
| 9 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stops | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sees | cc |
| 11 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stops | conj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 one | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 picture | nummod |
| 14 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 picture | amod |
| 15 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sees | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 says | advmod |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stops | conj |
| 19 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 magic | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 magic | cop |
| 21 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 says | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stops | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | a girl | the film | a cartoon | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector film=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | see | present | a girl not said here | one frozen picture | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | a girl not said here | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | present | films | magic 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: What is really true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 true | advmod |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
The film breaks when you pause it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 film | det |
| 2 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breaks | nsubj |
| 3 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 pause | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pause | nsubj |
| 6 | pause | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 breaks | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pause | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | the film | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pause | present | you | film | tree rules |
Option 2
Pictures move by themselves on the screen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 move | nsubj |
| 2 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 themselves | case |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 move | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 screen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 screen | det |
| 7 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 move | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | Pictures | the screen | by Pictures = picture | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme by themselves=Source on screen=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Films are one moving picture that never stops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 picture | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 picture | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 picture | nummod |
| 4 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 picture | amod |
| 5 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 stops | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 stops | advmod |
| 8 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 picture | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Films | one moving picture | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not stop | present | one moving picture | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Films are many still pictures shown fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pictures | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pictures | cop |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pictures | amod |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 pictures | advmod |
| 5 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pictures | acl |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 shown | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Films | many pictures | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | show | participle | many pictures not said here | fast property | 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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