Test 4 · ★★ · «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes
In a cartoon, the kid with a dad in prison is a villain too. What's more real?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: be · To what, where: villain, cartoon
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» 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 kid with a dad in prison is a villain too.
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 villain | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kid | det |
| 6 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 villain | nsubj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 dad | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dad | det |
| 9 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kid | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 prison | case |
| 11 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dad | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 villain | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 villain | det |
| 14 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 villain | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 villain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the kid with a dad in prison | a villain | a cartoon | 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
Kids of prisoners are always trouble
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trouble | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 prisoners | case |
| 3 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kids | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trouble | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 trouble | advmod |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kids of prisoners | trouble | always property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A parent's mistakes are not the child's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 parent | det |
| 2 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mistakes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 parent | case |
| 4 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 child | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 child | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 child | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 child | case |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | a parent's mistakes | 's the child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mistake | a parent | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
It runs in families, like hair colour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 runs | nsubj |
| 2 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 families | case |
| 4 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 runs | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 colour | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 colour | case |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 colour | compound |
| 8 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 runs | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | It | families | like hair colour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Trajectory |
Option 4
Cartoons always get prison right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 get | advmod |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 3 get | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Cartoons | prison | always, right property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prison=Stimulus |
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