Test 10 · ★ · Reading faces and voices
she's smiling but her eyes aren't, real smile?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: she, eyes · What happens: smile, not be · To what, where: real smile
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 14 «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 smiling | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 smiling | aux |
| 3 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 smile | cc |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 smile | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 smile | cop |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 smile | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smile | punct |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 smile | amod |
| 11 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smiling | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | present · progressive | she | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | her eyes | real smile | tree rules |
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.
The options
Option 1
No, real smiles never show teeth at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 show | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 smiles | punct |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 smiles | amod |
| 4 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 show | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 show | advmod |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 show | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 show | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not show | present | real smiles | teeth | all | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Maybe not; real smiles crinkle the eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 6 crinkle | advmod |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 crinkle | advmod |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 crinkle | punct |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 smiles | amod |
| 5 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crinkle | nsubj |
| 6 | crinkle | crinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eyes | det |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crinkle | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not crinkle | present | real smiles | the eyes | maybe property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
Option 3
Yes, any smile is real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 real | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 smile | det |
| 4 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 real | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 real | cop |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | any smile | real property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, smiles are only in the mouth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 mouth | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mouth | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mouth | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 mouth | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mouth | det |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | smiles | the mouth | 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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