Test 8 · ★ · Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors
A family from Toronto travels to Melbourne. What do they need for their chargers?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: family, they · What happens: travel, need · To what, where: Melbourne
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 217 «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» 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 family from Toronto travels to Melbourne.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travels | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Toronto | case |
| 4 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 family | nmod |
| 5 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Melbourne | case |
| 7 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 travels | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 travels | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | a family from Toronto | Melbourne | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to melbourne=Destination |
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: What do they need for their chargers?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 need | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 chargers | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chargers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | chargers | charger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present · do-support | they | for their chargers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A travel adaptor for slanted pins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 adaptor | det |
| 2 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 adaptor | compound |
| 3 | adaptor | adaptor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 pins | case |
| 5 | slanted | slanted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pins | amod |
| 6 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 adaptor | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nothing, since plugs are the same everywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 same | punct |
| 3 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 7 same | mark |
| 4 | plugs | plug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 same | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 same | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 same | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | appos |
| 8 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 same | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | plugs | everywhere, same property | tree rules |
Option 3
A stronger push on the plug
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 push | det |
| 2 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 push | amod |
| 3 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 plug | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plug | det |
| 6 | plug | plug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 push | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A three-square-pin adaptor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 adaptor | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 square | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 three | punct |
| 4 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pin | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 square | punct |
| 6 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 adaptor | compound |
| 7 | adaptor | adaptor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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