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title: A cartoon shows a phone zooming into a bird a mile away perfectly sh… — Photography and phone cameras · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon shows a phone zooming into a bird a mile away perfectly sharp. What is wrong? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 20 «Photography and phone cameras» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Photography and phone cameras

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A cartoon shows a phone zooming into a bird a mile away perfectly sharp. What is wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon, phone · **What happens:** show, zoom, be · **To what, where:** phone, mile

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 20 «Photography and phone cameras» of the arts 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon shows a phone zooming into a bird a mile away perfectly sharp.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:20-photography-and-phone-cameras:t5:1
# text = A cartoon shows a phone zooming into a bird a mile away perfectly sharp.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	zooming	zoom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a cartoon | a phone |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent phone=Recipient |
| 2 | **zoom** | gerund | a phone *not said here* | a mile |  |  |  | into a bird | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bird=Destination |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:20-photography-and-phone-cameras:t5:2
# text = What is wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nothing, digital zoom is always perfect

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:20-photography-and-phone-cameras:t5:o1:1
# text = Nothing, digital zoom is always perfect
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	digital	digital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	zoom	zoom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing digital zoom |  |  |  |  | always, perfect *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Digital zoom loses detail and goes blurry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:20-photography-and-phone-cameras:t5:o2:1
# text = Digital zoom loses detail and goes blurry
1	Digital	digital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	zoom	zoom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	blurry	blurry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present | Digital zoom | detail |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | present | Digital zoom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | blurry *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Phones cannot zoom at all, not even a little

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:20-photography-and-phone-cameras:t5:o3:1
# text = Phones cannot zoom at all, not even a little
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	zoom	zoom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **zoom** | can | Phones |  |  | all |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Birds cannot be photographed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:20-photography-and-phone-cameras:t5:o4:1
# text = Birds cannot be photographed
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	photographed	photograph	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **photograph** | can · passive |  | Birds |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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**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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