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Test 10 · ★ · Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky

A shopkeeper puts a big curved mirror in the corner of the shop. Why curved?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: shopkeeper · What happens: put, curve · To what, where: big curved mirror, corner

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 21 «Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky» of the physics 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: A shopkeeper puts a big curved mirror in the corner of the shop.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shopkeeper	det
2	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	nsubj
3	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mirror	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mirror	amod
6	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 mirror	amod
7	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 corner	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 corner	det
10	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 shop	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shop	det
13	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 corner	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 puts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present	a shopkeeper	a big curved mirror		the corner of the shop			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mirror=Theme in corner=Destination
2	curve	participle							vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material

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: Why curved?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 curved	advmod
2	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 curved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curve	participle							vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material

The options

Option 1

To stop thieves from seeing their own faces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 seeing	mark
5	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stop	advcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 faces	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 faces	amod
8	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seeing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		thieves					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality thief=Eventuality
2	see	gerund		thieves's own faces					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus

Option 2

To make all the goods on sale look shiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 look	advcl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 goods	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goods	det
5	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 make	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 sale	case
7	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		all goods		sale			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset goods=Product
2	look	present						shiny property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

To make the whole shop look much smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shop	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shop	amod
5	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 smaller	advmod
8	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the whole shop					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the whole shop not said here					small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To show a wider view of the whole shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 view	det
4	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 view	amod
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 shop	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shop	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shop	amod
9	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 view	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive		a wider view of the whole shop					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent view=Recipient
2	view			the whole shop					nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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