Exam question 1 · Rain, floods and storms

Identify the depth of moving water that may suffice to cause a car to float.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, moving water · What happens: identify, move, suffice, cause, float · To what, where: depth, car

This is exam question 1 of lesson 235 «Rain, floods and storms» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 depth	det
3	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depth	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 suffice	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 suffice	aux
9	suffice	suffice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 water	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cause	mark
11	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 suffice	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 car	det
13	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cause	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 float	mark
15	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 car	acl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the depth of moving water	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent depth=Theme
2	move	gerund			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	suffice	may	moving water		tree rules
4	cause	to-infinitive	moving water not said here	a car	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition car=Patient
5	float	to-infinitive	moving water not said here	a car not said here	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

About one centimetre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 centimetre	nummod
3	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

About three metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 metres	nummod
3	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

About thirty centimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 thirty	advmod
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 centimetres	nummod
3	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

About ten metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 ten	advmod
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 metres	nummod
3	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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