Test 9 · Buildings and architecture

Why do some buildings in Japan sit on special bases or bending frames?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: buildings · What happens: do, sit · To what, where: special bases

This is test 9 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	advcl
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 buildings	det
4	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sit	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Japan	case
6	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 buildings	nmod
7	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 bases	case
9	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bases	amod
10	bases	basis	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sit	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 frames	cc
12	bending	bending	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 frames	compound
13	frames	frame	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bases	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	some buildings in Japan not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	present	some buildings in Japan			special bases or bending frames			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on basis=Location

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

So they can be picked up and moved to another city later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 picked	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 picked	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 picked	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 picked	aux:pass
5	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 picked	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 moved	cc
8	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 picked	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 city	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moved	obl
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 picked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	can · passive		they				late property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	move	participle				another city			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to city=Trajectory

Option 2

To look modern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						modern property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Because heavy buildings have been banned in Japan by law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 banned	mark
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 buildings	amod
3	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 banned	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 banned	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 banned	aux:pass
6	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Japan	case
8	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 banned	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 law	case
10	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	present · perfect · passive	law	heavy buildings		Japan			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To move with the shaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 move	mark
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 shaking	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shaking	det
5	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	to-infinitive						with the shaking	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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