Test 14 · ★★ · Building and making things safely

Why did Ruby's den roof give way under her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: den roof · What happens: give · To what, where: way

This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 244 «Building and making things safely» 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	7 give	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
3	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 roof	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Ruby	case
5	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roof	compound
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
9	under	under	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	Ruby's den roof	way				under Ruby	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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 · ✓ the right answer

It was not strong enough for her weight

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	4 strong	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 strong	advmod
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 strong	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 weight	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 weight	nmod:poss
8	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	It					for her weight; enough, strong property	tree rules

Option 2

Den roofs always break in the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roofs	compound
2	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 break	advmod
4	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 rain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rain	det
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	Den roofs			the rain		always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rain=Location

Option 3

She built it too pretty

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	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 pretty	advmod
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 built	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	She	it				pretty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

Option 4

It was made from the wrong colour of wood

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 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 colour	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colour	det
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colour	amod
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 wood	case
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		It		the wrong colour of wood			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from colour=Material

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