Test 10 · Buildings and architecture

Which is a reason concrete flats were built in the 1960s?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason · What happens: be, build · To what, where: reason, concrete flats, 1960s

This is test 10 of lesson 34 «Buildings and architecture» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 reason	det
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flats	compound
6	flats	flat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 built	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 built	aux:pass
8	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 1960s	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 1960s	det
11	1960s	1960s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	8 built	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a reason					tree rules
2	build	past · passive	a reason not said here	concrete flats		the 1960s			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To make cities look as grey as possible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 look	advcl
3	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 grey	case
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 possible	mark
8	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	cities					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product
2	look	imperative	you not said here					as grey	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

To store old cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 store	mark
2	store	store	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cars	amod
4	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 store	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	to-infinitive		old cars					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To give many people new homes quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	iobj
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 homes	amod
6	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		new homes	many people			quickly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient home=Theme

Option 4

Because bricks were banned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 banned	mark
2	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 banned	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 banned	aux:pass
4	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · passive		bricks					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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