Test 8 · ★ · Nightmares after a scary game
«it's only a skeleton made of pixels mate». Does knowing that help?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, skeleton · What happens: be, make, do, know · To what, where: skeleton, mate, help
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 402 «Nightmares after a scary game» 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
Sentence 1: «it's only a skeleton made of pixels mate».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 skeleton | punct |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 skeleton | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 skeleton | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 skeleton | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 skeleton | det |
| 6 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 skeleton | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pixels | case |
| 9 | pixels | pixel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | obl |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | xcomp |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 skeleton | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 skeleton | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | it | a skeleton | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | participle | a skeleton not said here | mate | of pixels | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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: Does knowing that help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Does | xcomp |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 help | det |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knowing | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | know | gerund | that help | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Yes, so watch it again tonight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 watch | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 watch | advmod |
| 4 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watch | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 watch | advmod |
| 7 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watch | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | it | again; tonight | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
No, it makes it scarier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 makes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | scarier | scarey | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | it | it | scarey property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, remembering it was made by artists can help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 remembering | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | remembering | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 help | csubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 remembering | ccomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 artists | case |
| 8 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl:agent |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 help | aux |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | gerund | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | artists | it | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | help | can | remembering | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
No, pixels really can climb out of screens at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 climb | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | pixels | pixel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 climb | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 climb | advmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 climb | aux |
| 6 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 screens | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 screens | case |
| 9 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 climb | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | can | pixels | screens | night | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out screen=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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