Test 8 · Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps
In a cartoon, the hero survives being squashed flat and pops back up. What's true about real life?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hero · What happens: survive, squash, pop, be · To what, where: cartoon
This is test 8 of lesson 71 «Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps» 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: In a cartoon, the hero survives being squashed flat and pops back up.
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 | 7 survives | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hero | det |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 survives | nsubj |
| 7 | survives | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 squashed | aux:pass |
| 9 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 survives | xcomp |
| 10 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 9 squashed | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pops | cc |
| 12 | pops | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 squashed | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 up | advmod |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 pops | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 survives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survive | present | the hero | a cartoon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | squash | gerund · passive | the hero not said here | flat property | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together» | ||||
| 3 | pop | present | the hero not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: 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's true about real life?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 life | amod |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | about real life; true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Cartoon rules work for children only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rules | compound |
| 2 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 work | nsubj |
| 3 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 children | case |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 work | obl |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 work | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Cartoon rules | for children | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for child=Beneficiary |
Option 2
Being squashed is never dangerous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 squashed | aux:pass |
| 2 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dangerous | csubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dangerous | cop |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 dangerous | advmod |
| 5 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | gerund · passive | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together» | ||||||
| 2 | not is | present | dangerous property | tree rules |
Option 3
Real people can pop back up like cartoons if they are strong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pop | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pop | aux |
| 4 | pop | pop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 up | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 pop | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 cartoons | case |
| 8 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pop | obl |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 strong | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 strong | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 strong | cop |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pop | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pop | can | Real people | like cartoons | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | people | strong property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Real bodies can't just pop back; real life is precious
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bodies | amod |
| 2 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pop | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 pop | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 pop | advmod |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 pop | advmod |
| 6 | pop | pop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 pop | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 precious | punct |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 life | amod |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 precious | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 precious | cop |
| 12 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pop | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pop back | can | Real bodies | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | real life | precious property | 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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