Test 4 · ★ · The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earwo…
A cartoon shows a phone app with a crystal ball reading a boy's mind to pick songs. What really happens?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, crystal ball, boy · What happens: show, read, pick, mind, happen · To what, where: phone app, mind, songs
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 5 «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» 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 cartoon shows a phone app with a crystal ball reading a boy's mind to pick songs.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 app | det |
| 5 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 app | compound |
| 6 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 ball | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ball | det |
| 9 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ball | compound |
| 10 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 app | nmod |
| 11 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ball | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mind | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 boy | case |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reading | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pick | mark |
| 17 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 reading | advcl |
| 18 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pick | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | a phone app | with a crystal ball | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent app=Recipient | |||
| 2 | read | gerund | a crystal ball not said here | a boy's mind | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pick | to-infinitive | a crystal ball not said here | songs | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mind | a boy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 really happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 happens | advmod |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The app guesses from listening history
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 app | det |
| 2 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guesses | nsubj |
| 3 | guesses | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 history | case |
| 5 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 history | amod |
| 6 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guesses | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | present | the app | listening history | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The phone hears the boy's thoughts through the screen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 phone | det |
| 2 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hears | nsubj |
| 3 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 boy | case |
| 7 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hears | obj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 screen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 screen | det |
| 10 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hears | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | the phone | the boy's thoughts | the screen | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thought=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | think | the boy | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
A singer phones each listener
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 singer | det |
| 2 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 phones | nsubj |
| 3 | phones | phone | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 listener | det |
| 5 | listener | listener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 phones | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | phone | present | a singer | each listener | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent listener=Recipient |
Option 4
Apps can really read minds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apps | app | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 read | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 read | advmod |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 read | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | can | Apps | minds | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic |
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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