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Test 3 · ★ · Describing: senses, showing and precise words

In a cartoon, a character says "The food was nice, the room was nice, I felt nice." Why is that funny?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character, food, room, that · What happens: say, be, feel · To what, where: cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 41 «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» of the English 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 character says "The food was nice, the room was nice, I felt nice."

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 says	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 character	det
6	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 nice	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 food	det
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nice	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 nice	cop
12	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nice	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nice	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 nice	cop
17	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nice	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 felt	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 felt	nsubj
20	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 nice	conj
21	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 felt	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 nice	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 nice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a character			a cartoon			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Manner
2	is in a quote	past	the food					nice property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	past	the room					nice property	tree rules
4	feel in a quote	past	a character = character					nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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: Why is that funny?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 funny	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	cop
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 funny	nsubj
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 funny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					funny property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Food is never nice in any cartoon you watch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nice	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 nice	advmod
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cartoon	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 cartoon	det
7	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nice	obl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 watch	nsubj
9	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cartoon	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Food			any cartoon		nice property	tree rules
2	watch	present	you	any cartoon not said here					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cartoon=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The character is secretly speaking French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speaking	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 speaking	aux
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	5 speaking	advmod
5	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 speaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present · progressive	the character	French				secretly property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It uses one dull word for everything

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 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 word	nummod
4	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 everything	case
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	It	one dull word				for everything	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent word=Theme for everything=Eventuality

Option 4

"Nice" is a very rude word in English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Nice	punct
2	Nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Nice	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 word	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 rude	advmod
7	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 English	case
10	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a Nice rude word		English			tree rules

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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