Test 6 · ★★★ · Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories an…
In a cartoon a bear walks upright in a hat for a whole day. What would a real bear do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bear, real bear · What happens: walk, do · To what, where: cartoon
This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 395 «Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real» of the biology 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 bear walks upright in a hat for a whole day.
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 | 6 walks | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walks | nsubj |
| 6 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 6 walks | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hat | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hat | det |
| 10 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walks | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walks | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | a bear | a cartoon | day | in a hat; upright property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Trajectory |
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 real bear do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bear | amod |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | would | a real bear | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Walk on four legs and stand up only now and then to look or sniff
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 legs | case |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 legs | nummod |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Walk | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stand | cc |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Walk | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 stand | compound:prt |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 now | advmod |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stand | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 look | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 look | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 look | mark |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Walk | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 sniff | cc |
| 15 | sniff | sniff | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 look | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | imperative | you not said here | four legs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stand up | infinitive | you not said here | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | you not said here | then | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sniff | infinitive | you not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Walk upright all day long like a person, only without the hat on its head
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 1 Walk | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walk | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Walk | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 person | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walk | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hat | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 hat | advmod |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 hat | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hat | det |
| 13 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walk | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hat | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | imperative | you not said here | day | like a person; without the hat on hat's head; long, upright property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Crawl on its belly like a snake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crawl | crawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 belly | case |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 belly | nmod:poss |
| 4 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Crawl | nmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 snake | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 snake | det |
| 7 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belly | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Hop along on one leg
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hop | hop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | along | along | ADV | _ | 1 Hop | advmod |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 leg | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 leg | nummod |
| 5 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hop | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | imperative | you not said here | one leg | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
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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