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Test 4 · Eyes, backs and thumbs

Theo: «lights off is way more epic, like a cinema». What does the lesson say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Theo, lesson · What happens: light off, be, say · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 420 «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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: Theo: «lights off is way more epic, like a cinema».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lights	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 lights	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 lights	punct
4	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	csubj
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 lights	compound:prt
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 epic	advmod
9	epic	epic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cinema	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 cinema	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cinema	det
13	cinema	cinema	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 epic	appos
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 cinema	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light off in a quote	present	Theo						vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		way					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.

Sentence 2: What does the lesson say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the lesson						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Darkness is best for the eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 best	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eyes	det
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 best	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Darkness					for the eyes; good property	tree rules

Option 2

Cinemas prove the dark is healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cinemas	cinema	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prove	nsubj
2	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dark	det
4	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 healthy	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 healthy	cop
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 prove	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	Cinemas						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the dark					healthy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A lamp on helps stop eye strain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lamp	det
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helps	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 lamp	nmod
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 helps	xcomp
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strain	compound
7	strain	strain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	a lamp						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	stop	infinitive	a lamp not said here	eye strain					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality strain=Eventuality

Option 4

Lights make games harder to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 harder	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Lights	games				hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product
2	see	to-infinitive	games not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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