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Test 4 · Ancient times and famous stories

Ava's art book shows a white Greek statue. What would it have looked like long ago?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: art book · What happens: show, look · To what, where: white Greek statue, book

This is test 4 of lesson 21 «Ancient times and famous stories» 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

Sentence 1: Ava's art book shows a white Greek statue.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 book	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ava	case
3	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 book	compound
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	nsubj
5	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 statue	det
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 statue	amod
8	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 statue	amod
9	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Ava's art book	a white Greek statue					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent statue=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 would it have looked like long ago?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 looked	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 looked	aux
5	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 ago	case
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 ago	advmod
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 looked	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would · perfect · passive		book					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Covered in mud to protect it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 mud	case
3	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Covered	obl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 protect	mark
5	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Covered	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle						in mud	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mud=Theme
2	protect	to-infinitive		mud					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

Option 2

Exactly the same as now, bare and white all over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 same	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 same	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 now	case
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 same	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bare	punct
7	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 same	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 white	cc
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 same	conj
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 over	advmod
11	over	over	ADV	_	9 white	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Painted in bright colours that later wore off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 colours	case
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 colours	amod
4	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Painted	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wore	obj
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 wore	advmod
7	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 colours	acl:relcl
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 wore	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle				bright colours			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in colour=Destination
2	wear off	past		bright colours				late property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source

Option 4

Painted black all over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Painted	xcomp
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 over	advmod
4	over	over	ADV	_	1 Painted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle						black, over property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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