Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / World / "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" / t8

Test 8 · "Crime is up, I saw it on the news"

In a cartoon Grandad sees two news stories, and his thought bubble shows every teenager in the world throwing eggs. Put the cartoon right.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad, thought bubble, you · What happens: see, think, show, throw, put · To what, where: two news stories, cartoon, teenager, eggs

This is test 8 of lesson 177 «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world 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 Grandad sees two news stories, and his thought bubble shows every teenager in the world throwing eggs.

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	5 sees	obl
4	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sees	nsubj
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 stories	nummod
7	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stories	compound
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sees	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shows	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shows	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bubble	nmod:poss
12	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 bubble	amod
13	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shows	nsubj
14	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sees	conj
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 teenager	det
16	teenager	teenager	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shows	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shows	obl
20	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 shows	advcl
21	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 throwing	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Grandad	two news stories		a cartoon			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	participle							vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	show	present	Grandad's thought bubble	every teenager				in the world	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent teenager=Patient in world=Topic
4	throw	gerund	Grandad's thought bubble not said here	eggs					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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: Put the cartoon right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
4	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	the cartoon				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cartoon=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Two stories about a few people don't describe millions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 stories	nummod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 describe	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 people	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 people	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stories	nmod
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 describe	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 describe	advmod
9	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 describe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not describe	present · do-support	Two stories about a few people	millions					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent million=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Grandad must have seen every teenager on TV

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seen	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 teenager	det
6	teenager	teenager	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 TV	case
8	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	must · perfect	Grandad	every teenager		TV			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer teenager=Stimulus

Option 3

Two stories are enough to describe every teenager in the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 stories	nummod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 enough	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 enough	cop
4	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 describe	mark
6	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 enough	advcl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 teenager	det
8	teenager	teenager	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describe	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Two stories					enough property	tree rules
2	describe	to-infinitive	Two stories not said here	every teenager		the world			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent teenager=Theme

Option 4

Only teenagers in cartoons have no manners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 teenagers	advmod
2	teenagers	teenager	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 cartoons	case
4	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teenagers	nmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 manners	det
7	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	teenagers in cartoons	no manners					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/t8/