Test 3 · Finding your way with landmarks
A boy in Wellington wants to use the midday Sun to find north. Where should he look?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: want, use, find, look · To what, where: midday
This is test 3 of lesson 16 «Finding your way with landmarks» 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.
The question
Sentence 1: A boy in Wellington wants to use the midday Sun to find north.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Wellington | case |
| 4 | Wellington | Wellington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 use | mark |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wants | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 midday | det |
| 9 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 use | obj |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 midday | appos |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 use | advcl |
| 13 | north | north | ADV | _ | 12 find | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a boy in Wellington | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | use not said to happen | to-infinitive | a boy in Wellington not said here | the midday | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent midday=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | a boy in Wellington not said here | north property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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.
Sentence 2: Where should he look?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 look | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | should | boy | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Towards the Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 Sun | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sun | det |
| 3 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Straight up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 up | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Away from the Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Sun | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sun | det |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Away | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
To the left of the Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 left | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 left | det |
| 3 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sun | det |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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