Test 11 · ★★ · Accidents, wars and deaths on the news
A cartoon shows a soldier hit by a cannonball who gets up laughing in the next scene. What is wrong with it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, cannonball · What happens: show, hit, get up, laugh, be · To what, where: soldier
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics 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 cartoon shows a soldier hit by a cannonball who gets up laughing in the next scene.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 soldier | det |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 soldier | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 cannonball | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cannonball | det |
| 9 | cannonball | cannonball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hit | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 gets | nsubj |
| 11 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cannonball | acl:relcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 gets | compound:prt |
| 13 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 gets | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 scene | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 scene | det |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scene | amod |
| 17 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laughing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | a soldier | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hit | participle | a soldier not said here | by a cannonball | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get up | present | a cannonball | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | a cannonball not said here | in the next scene | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in scene=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.
Sentence 2: What is wrong with it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrong | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with cannonball; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Cartoons always show war exactly as it really is
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 show | advmod |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | obj |
| 5 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 show | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 is | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 is | nsubj |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 is | advmod |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Cartoons | war | always, exactly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent war=Recipient | |||
| 2 | be | present | war | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Nothing, because soldiers in battles always get up again afterwards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 4 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 battles | case |
| 6 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 soldiers | nmod |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 get | advmod |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | appos |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 get | compound:prt |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 11 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | present | soldiers in battles | again | afterwards, always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Cannonballs only make people a bit dizzy for a minute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cannonballs | cannonball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 make | advmod |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 minute | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 minute | det |
| 10 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Cannonballs | people | minute | a bit obl:unmarked; dizzy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Real war kills and hurts people, who do not get up again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 war | amod |
| 2 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kills | nsubj |
| 3 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hurts | cc |
| 5 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kills | conj |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hurts | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 get | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 get | advmod |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 people | acl:relcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 get | compound:prt |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | Real war | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | hurt | present | Real war not said here | people | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not get up | present · do-support | people | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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