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Test 3 · ★ · Litter and caring for nature

A girl wants to build a stone tower with rocks from the stream. What is the problem?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, problem · What happens: want, build, be · To what, where: stone tower, stream

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 239 «Litter and caring for nature» 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 girl wants to build a stone tower with rocks from the stream.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 build	mark
5	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tower	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tower	compound
8	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 build	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 rocks	case
10	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 stream	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stream	det
13	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 build	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a girl						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	build not said to happen	to-infinitive	a girl not said here	a stone tower		the stream		with rocks	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset tower=Product from stream=Material

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 is the problem?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the problem						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Stream rocks are too slippery to stack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rocks	compound
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slippery	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slippery	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 slippery	advmod
5	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stack	mark
7	stack	stack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 slippery	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Stream rocks					slippery property	tree rules
2	stack	to-infinitive	Stream rocks not said here						vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She would destroy homes of insects and fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 destroy	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 destroy	aux
3	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 destroy	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 insects	case
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 homes	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fish	cc
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 insects	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	would	She	homes of insects and fish					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient

Option 3

Nothing at all; streams have plenty of rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 have	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
5	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 rocks	case
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plenty	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Nothing	plenty of rocks					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient

Option 4

The tower will fall over in the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tower	det
2	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wind	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall over	future	the tower			the wind		over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wind=Location

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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