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Test 3 · ★★ · Lenses and eyes

In a cartoon a kid zaps ants with a magnifying glass for fun. What is the real rule?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid, real rule · What happens: zap, magnify, be · To what, where: ants, cartoon

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Lenses and eyes» 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: In a cartoon a kid zaps ants with a magnifying glass for fun.

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	6 zaps	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 zaps	nsubj
6	zaps	zap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 zaps	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 glass	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 glass	det
10	magnifying	magnify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 glass	amod
11	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 zaps	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 fun	case
13	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 glass	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 zaps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	zap	present	a kid	ants		a cartoon		with a magnifying glass for fun	tree rules
2	magnify	gerund							vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 is the real rule?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rule	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rule	amod
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the real rule						tree rules

The options

Option 1

It only works on cloudy days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 works	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It				day		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It cools the ants down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cools	nsubj
2	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ants	det
4	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cools	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 cools	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool down	present	It	the ants				down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ant=Patient

Option 3

That is a harmless game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 game	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 game	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 game	det
4	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 game	amod
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a harmless game					tree rules

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

Never point it at the Sun or anything living, it burns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 point	advmod
2	point	point	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 point	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 Sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 point	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 anything	cc
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 Sun	conj
9	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 anything	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 burns	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 burns	nsubj
12	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 point	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not point	imperative	you not said here	it		the Sun			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	live	gerund							vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	burn	present	Sun						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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