Test 5 · Sign language
In a cartoon, a signer keeps a totally blank face while asking a question. What's missing?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: signer · What happens: keep, ask, be · To what, where: blank face, cartoon, question
This is test 5 of lesson 32 «Sign language» of the language 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, a signer keeps a totally blank face while asking a question.
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 | 7 keeps | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 signer | det |
| 6 | signer | signer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeps | nsubj |
| 7 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 face | det |
| 9 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 10 blank | advmod |
| 10 | blank | blank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 face | amod |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeps | obj |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 asking | mark |
| 13 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 keeps | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 question | det |
| 15 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asking | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | a signer | a blank face | a cartoon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent face=Theme in cartoon=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a signer not said here | a question | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
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 missing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 missing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 missing | cop |
| 3 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 missing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | missing property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Facial grammar, like raised eyebrows for a question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Facial | facial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grammar | amod |
| 2 | grammar | grammar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 eyebrows | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 eyebrows | case |
| 5 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 eyebrows | amod |
| 6 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grammar | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 question | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 question | det |
| 9 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyebrows | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
A second person
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hat | det |
| 2 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, because faces don't matter at all in signing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 matter | mark |
| 4 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 matter | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 matter | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 matter | advmod |
| 7 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 matter | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 signing | case |
| 11 | signing | signing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 matter | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | faces | all | in signing | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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