Test 9 · Finding your way with landmarks
Why is a river a good landmark?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: river · What happens: be
This is test 9 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 river | det |
| 4 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 landmark | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 landmark | amod |
| 7 | landmark | landmark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a river | why property | tree rules |
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
It looks the same in every town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looks | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | It | the same | every town | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |
Option 2
It always flows towards your house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flows | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 flows | advmod |
| 3 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | It | towards your house; always property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It is big, fixed and easy to recognise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 big | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 big | cop |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fixed | punct |
| 5 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 big | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 easy | cc |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 big | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 recognise | mark |
| 9 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 easy | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | recognise | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
It moves to a new place every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 moves | nsubj |
| 2 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 place | amod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moves | obl |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moves | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | It | a new place | day | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to place=Trajectory |
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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