Test 2 · ★ · Water, deserts and the shape of the land

"omg my cousin literally showed me a video of an Aussie toilet going backwards, so it's TRUE" What's wrong with that proof?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, Aussie toilet · What happens: show, go, be · To what, where: video, me

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 16 «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 showed	punct
2	omg	omg	INTJ	_	6 showed	discourse
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cousin	nmod:poss
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 showed	nsubj
5	literally	literally	ADV	_	6 showed	advmod
6	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 showed	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 video	det
9	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 showed	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 toilet	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 toilet	det
12	Aussie	aussie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 toilet	amod
13	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 video	nmod
14	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 toilet	acl
15	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	14 going	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 TRUE	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 TRUE	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 TRUE	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 TRUE	cop
20	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 showed	parataxis
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 wrong	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 wrong	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 wrong	cop
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 TRUE	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 proof	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 proof	det
27	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wrong	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 showed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	show in a quote	past	my cousin	a video of a Aussie toilet	me	literally property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient video=Topic
2	go in a quote	gerund	a Aussie toilet not said here			backwards property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	cousin			true property	tree rules
4	is	present				with that proof; wrong property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Toilets go either way anywhere; one video doesn't show the cause

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toilets	toilet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl:unmarked
5	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 go	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 show	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 video	nummod
8	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 show	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 show	advmod
11	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 go	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cause	det
13	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Toilets	either way				anywhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not show	present · do-support	one video	the cause					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cause=Recipient

Option 2

Videos from Australia are filmed upside down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 filmed	nsubj:pass
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Australia	case
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Videos	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 filmed	aux:pass
5	filmed	film	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 filmed	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 filmed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	film down	present · passive		Videos from Australia				down property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, a video always proves the cause, so it must be totally true

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 proves	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 video	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 video	det
4	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 proves	advmod
6	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cause	det
8	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proves	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 true	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	15 true	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 true	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 true	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 true	cop
14	totally	totally	ADV	_	15 true	advmod
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 proves	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	Nothing	the cause				always property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	is	must	cause					totally, true property	tree rules

Option 4

Only the cousin's toilet works that way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 toilet	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cousin	det
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toilet	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 cousin	case
5	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 works	nsubj
6	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 works	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	the cousin's toilet	that way					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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