Test 3 · ★ · Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform
In a cartoon, the girl in the charity-shop dress gets laughed off the dance floor. What's more real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: laugh off, be · To what, where: girl, cartoon
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 487 «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» 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: In a cartoon, the girl in the charity-shop dress gets laughed off the dance floor.
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 | 14 laughed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laughed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 dress | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dress | det |
| 9 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shop | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 charity | punct |
| 11 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dress | compound |
| 12 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 girl | nmod |
| 13 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 laughed | aux:pass |
| 14 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 floor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 floor | det |
| 17 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 floor | compound |
| 18 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laughed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 laughed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh off | present · passive | the girl in the shop dress | a cartoon | off the dance floor | 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's more real?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 real | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 real | amod |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only grown-ups are allowed in charity shops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 ups | advmod |
| 2 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ups | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grown | punct |
| 4 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 allowed | aux:pass |
| 6 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 shops | case |
| 8 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shops | compound |
| 9 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 allowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | allow | present · passive | grown ups | charity shops | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Plenty of people shop there and nobody can tell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shop | compound |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 people | case |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Plenty | nmod |
| 4 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 shop | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tell | cc |
| 7 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | aux |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shop | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | nobody | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Charity-shop clothes always fall apart on you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shop | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Charity | punct |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clothes | compound |
| 4 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 fall | nsubj |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 fall | advmod |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 6 fall | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 fall | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall apart | present | shop clothes | on you; always, apart property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Charity shops sell nothing but old curtains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shops | compound |
| 2 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sell | nsubj |
| 3 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 sell | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 curtains | cc |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 curtains | amod |
| 7 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nothing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | Charity shops | nothing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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