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title: Zara: «why's a cartoon game with blood 16 and a film 12, makes no se… — What the numbers on the box mean · tree and pragmatics
description: Zara: «why's a cartoon game with blood 16 and a film 12, makes no sense». Best answer? Test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 400 «What the numbers on the box mean» of the everyday 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 7 · ★★★ · What the numbers on the box mean

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Zara: «why's a cartoon game with blood 16 and a film 12, makes no sense». Best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Zara · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** cartoon game, sense

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 400 «What the numbers on the box mean» of the everyday 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/everyday/400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Zara: «why's a cartoon game with blood 16 and a film 12, makes no sense».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean:t7:1
# text = Zara: «why's a cartoon game with blood 16 and a film 12, makes no sense».
1	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a cartoon game |  |  |  | with blood and a film | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Zara | no sense |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Product |

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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:* Best answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean:t7:2
# text = Best answer?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Cartoons are scarier than films, everyone knows that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean:t7:o1:1
# text = Cartoons are scarier than films, everyone knows that
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	scarier	scarey	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
8	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cartoons |  |  |  |  | than films; scarey *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | everyone | that |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Films never have any blood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean:t7:o2:1
# text = Films never have any blood
1	Films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present | Films | any blood |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ratings are picked at random

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean:t7:o3:1
# text = Ratings are picked at random
1	Ratings	rating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	random	random	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | present · passive |  | Ratings |  | random |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at random=Asset |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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In the game you do it yourself, over and over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean:t7:o4:1
# text = In the game you do it yourself, over and over
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | you | game |  | the game |  | yourself *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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