--- title: A game shows a pirate in 1600 squirting tomato ketchup. What's off? — Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, A… · tree and pragmatics description: A game shows a pirate in 1600 squirting tomato ketchup. What's off? 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What's off? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** game, pirate · **What happens:** show, squirt · **To what, where:** pirate, tomato ketchup This is test 8 of lesson 24 «Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian and more» of the language 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/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A game shows a pirate in 1600 squirting tomato ketchup. ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:24-borrowed-words-from-far-away:t8:1 # text = A game shows a pirate in 1600 squirting tomato ketchup. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 game game 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 pirate pirate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1600 1600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 8 squirting squirt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 9 tomato tomato NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 ketchup ketchup NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | a game | a pirate | | | | in 1600 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent pirate=Patient in 1600=Topic | | 2 | **squirt** | gerund | a pirate *not said here* | tomato ketchup | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ketchup=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:* What's off? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:24-borrowed-words-from-far-away:t8:2 # text = What's off? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Ketchup became a tomato sauce in America in the 1800s ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:24-borrowed-words-from-far-away:t8:o1:1 # text = Ketchup became a tomato sauce in America in the 1800s 1 Ketchup ketchup NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 tomato tomato NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 sauce sauce NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 1800s 1800 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Ketchup | a tomato sauce in America | | | | in the 1800s *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1800=Result | ### Option 2 {#o2} Pirates hated sauce ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:24-borrowed-words-from-far-away:t8:o2:1 # text = Pirates hated sauce 1 Pirates pirate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 hated hate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 sauce sauce NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hate** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 3 {#o3} Ketchup was invented in 2000 ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:24-borrowed-words-from-far-away:t8:o3:1 # text = Ketchup was invented in 2000 1 Ketchup ketchup NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 invented invent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 2000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invent** | past · passive | | Ketchup | | 2000 | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nothing, ketchup was always tomato, even in the 1600s ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:24-borrowed-words-from-far-away:t8:o4:1 # text = Nothing, ketchup was always tomato, even in the 1600s 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ketchup ketchup NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 6 tomato tomato NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 1600s 1600 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Nothing ketchup | tomato and the 1600s | | | | always *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. 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