Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★
Ollie draws the far-away people bigger "so you can see them properly". What happens to his picture?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ollie, you · What happens: draw, see, happen · To what, where: far people, people
This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» 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: Ollie draws the far-away people bigger "so you can see them properly".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 draws | nsubj |
| 2 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 4 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 away | punct |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 far | advmod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 draws | obj |
| 8 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 draws | advcl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bigger | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 see | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 draws | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 13 see | advmod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 draws | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | Ollie | the far people | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | can | you | people | properly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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 happens to his picture?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 picture | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 picture | nmod:poss |
| 5 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happens | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | to Ollie's picture | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
It loses its depth, because far things should look smaller
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 | 2 loses | nsubj |
| 2 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 depth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loses | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 look | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 7 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 look | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 look | aux |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 loses | parataxis |
| 11 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 look | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | It | its depth | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent depth=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | look | should | far things | small property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
It looks deeper and much more real than before
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 | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 looks | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 real | cc |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 real | advmod |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 deeper | conj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 before | case |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 real | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | It | deep property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
Nothing changes, since size has nothing to do with distance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 changes | nsubj |
| 2 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| 4 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 has | mark |
| 5 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 changes | ccomp |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 has | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nothing | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 distance | case |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Nothing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | size | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | size not said here | nothing not said here | with distance | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The near people now look far away and the far ones near
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 look | advmod |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 look | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ones | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ones | det |
| 10 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ones | amod |
| 11 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | conj |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the near people | now | away property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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