Test 11 · ★★ · How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming an…
A cartoon shows the Day of the Dead as skeletons chasing children through the streets. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, skeletons · What happens: show, chase, be · To what, where: Day, children, streets
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 65 «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» 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 the Day of the Dead as skeletons chasing children through the streets.
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Day | det |
| 5 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Dead | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dead | det |
| 8 | Dead | Dead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Day | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 skeletons | case |
| 10 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shows | obl |
| 11 | chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 skeletons | acl |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chasing | obj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 streets | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 streets | det |
| 15 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chasing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | the Day of the Dead | as skeletons | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent day=Recipient | |||
| 2 | chase | gerund | skeletons not said here | children | the streets | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme through street=Trajectory |
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?
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 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is a loving festival of memory, not a scary chase
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 | 5 festival | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 festival | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 festival | det |
| 4 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 festival | amod |
| 5 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 memory | case |
| 7 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 festival | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chase | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 chase | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 chase | det |
| 11 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chase | amod |
| 12 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 festival | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a loving festival and a scary chase | of memory | tree rules |
Option 2
Skeletons only chase adults
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chase | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 chase | advmod |
| 3 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chase | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | present | Skeletons | adults | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme |
Option 3
Nothing, it is exactly like that every year in Mexico
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 year | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 year | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 year | cop |
| 5 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 9 year | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 exactly | obl |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Mexico | case |
| 11 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 year | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nothing | every year | Mexico | exactly property | tree rules |
Option 4
The skeletons are real people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 skeletons | det |
| 2 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 people | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | cop |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the skeletons | real people | tree rules |
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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