Test 6 · ★ · Campfires, cold nights and rivers

Why is a fallen log across a river a bad bridge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: fall · To what, where: log, river

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 231 «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» 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=Int	4 fallen	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fallen	aux:pass
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fallen	det
4	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fallen	obj
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fallen	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bridge	det
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bridge	amod
11	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fallen	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fallen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present · passive		log		a river		a bad bridge obl	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: log=Result

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

Fish live under logs and bite at the feet of anyone crossing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	4 logs	case
4	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bite	cc
6	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 live	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 feet	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feet	det
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bite	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 crossing	case
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 crossing	compound
12	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feet	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Fish			logs			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under log=Location
2	bite	present	Fish not said here					at the feet of anyone crossing	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at foot=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is wet and slippery, and a fall into the river is dangerous

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 wet	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wet	cop
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 slippery	cc
5	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wet	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dangerous	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dangerous	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fall	det
9	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dangerous	nsubj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fall	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dangerous	cop
14	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	wet property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	is	present	a fall into the river	dangerous property	tree rules

Option 3

It is far too wide for children to walk on

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	5 wide	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wide	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 wide	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 wide	advmod
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wide	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 walk	mark
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wide	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for children; far, wide property	tree rules
2	walk on	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Logs float away the moment you step on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 float	nsubj
2	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 float	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moment	det
5	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 float	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 step	nsubj
7	step	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 moment	acl:relcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 step	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float away	present	Logs				moment	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	step	present	you	the moment not said here				on Logs = log	tree rules

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