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Test 3 · Editing and redrafting

In a cartoon, a robot "improves" a story by replacing every word with the longest synonym. What happens?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robot, story · What happens: improve, replace, happen · To what, where: story, cartoon, word

This is test 3 of lesson 43 «Editing and redrafting» 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 robot "improves" a story by replacing every word with the longest synonym.

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	8 improves	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 robot	det
6	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 improves	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 robot	punct
8	improves	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 story	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 improves	obj
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 replacing	mark
13	replacing	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 story	acl
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 word	det
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 replacing	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 synonym	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 synonym	det
18	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 synonym	amod
19	synonym	synonym	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 improves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve in a quote	present	a robot	a story		a cartoon			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient
2	replace	gerund	a story not said here	every word				with the longest synonym	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme word=Location with synonym=Co-Theme

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?

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	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 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

Nothing changes at all

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	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The story becomes harder to read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 becomes	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 harder	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the story					hard property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	read	to-infinitive	the story not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The story becomes much clearer and simpler for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 clearer	advmod
5	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 becomes	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 simpler	cc
7	simpler	simple	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 clearer	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 clearer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the story					clear property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The story turns into a poem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 poem	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 poem	det
6	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the story			a poem			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into poem=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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