Test 11 · Buildings and architecture

Who checks that a building is safe to stand up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: building · What happens: check, be, stand up

This is test 11 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 checks	nsubj
2	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 safe	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 building	det
5	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 safe	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 checks	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stand	mark
9	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 safe	xcomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 stand	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 checks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	check	present			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a building	safe property	tree rules
3	stand up	to-infinitive	a building not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The first family who moves in and lives there for a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 family	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 family	amod
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lives	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 moves	nsubj
5	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 family	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 moves	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 moves	cc
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lives	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 year	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move in	present	the first family						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present	the first family			there	year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Engineers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Engineers	engineer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

The painters, when they finish painting the outside walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 painters	det
2	painters	painter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 finish	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 finish	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 finish	nsubj
6	finish	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 painters	acl:relcl
7	painting	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 finish	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 walls	det
9	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walls	compound
10	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 painting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	present	painters = painter						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	paint	gerund	painters = painter not said here	the outside walls					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent wall=Destination

Option 4

The neighbours, who watch it being built from their windows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbours	det
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 built	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 watch	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 watch	nsubj
5	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 built	aux:pass
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 watch	obj
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 built	aux:pass
8	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 windows	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 windows	nmod:poss
11	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive		the neighbours		neighbours's windows			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from window=Material

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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