Test 3 · ★ · Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet

Which is the best tool to settle an argument about which of two lines is longer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, settle · To what, where: best tool, argument

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 280 «Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 tool	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tool	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tool	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 tool	amod
5	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 settle	mark
7	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tool	acl
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 argument	det
9	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 settle	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 longer	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 lines	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 lines	nummod
14	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 longer	obl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 longer	cop
16	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 argument	appos
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best tool		tree rules
2	settle	to-infinitive	a argument		vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme argument=Location
3	is	present		about a argument; of two lines; long property	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 · ← Mova's choice

A torch shining on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 torch	det
2	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 torch	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund	a torch not said here					on them = they	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A ruler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ruler	det
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Your eyes from closer up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 closer	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 closer	case
4	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 closer	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A vote by the class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 vote	det
2	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 class	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 class	det
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vote	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote		the class						nom vote «act transitive»: by=agent

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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