Test 7 · ★ · Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky

What would you see if you looked at the back of a shiny spoon?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: see, look

This is test 7 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 see	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 looked	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 looked	nsubj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 back	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 back	det
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 spoon	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 spoon	det
13	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spoon	amod
14	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	look a condition, not said to happen	past	you					at the back of a shiny spoon	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at back=Theme

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

Yourself upside down and much smaller than you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 upside	nsubj
2	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 upside	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 smaller	cc
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 smaller	advmod
6	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 upside	conj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 smaller	obl

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

Option 2

Nothing at all, because the back is too curved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 curved	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 curved	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 curved	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 curved	aux:pass
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 curved	advmod
10	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curve	present · passive		the back					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yourself the right way up and spread out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	amod
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yourself	conj
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 way	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 spread	cc
7	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Yourself	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 spread	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread out	infinitive							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only the colours of the rainbow, spread out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 colours	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colours	det
3	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 rainbow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rainbow	det
6	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colours	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spread	punct
8	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 spread	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread out	participle · passive		the colours of the rainbow					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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