Test 2 · ★★ · Building and making things safely

In a snowy town in Minnesota, why must children not build forts in the snow piled by the road?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: children · What happens: not build, pile · To what, where: forts, snowy town, snow

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 town	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 town	det
3	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 town	amod
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 build	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Minnesota	case
6	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 town	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 town	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 build	advmod
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 build	aux
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 build	nsubj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 build	advmod
12	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	forts	fort	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 build	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 snow	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snow	det
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 build	obl
17	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 snow	acl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 road	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 road	det
20	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 piled	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 build	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not build	must	children	forts		a snowy town in Minnesota		in the snow	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fort=Product
2	pile	participle		the snow not said here				by the road	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by road=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The forts melt faster near roads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 forts	det
2	forts	fort	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 melt	nsubj
3	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 melt	advmod
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 roads	case
6	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	the forts			roads		fast property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The snow can collapse, and ploughs cannot see them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collapse	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 collapse	aux
4	collapse	collapse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
7	ploughs	plough	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 see	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 collapse	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collapse	can	the snow						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not see	can	ploughs	them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 3

The snow by roads is far too dirty and salty to build with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dirty	nsubj
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 roads	case
4	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 snow	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dirty	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 dirty	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 dirty	advmod
8	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 salty	cc
10	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dirty	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 build	mark
12	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dirty	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	12 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	the snow by roads	dirty, far property	tree rules
2	be		the snow by roads not said here		tree rules
3	build	to-infinitive	the snow by roads not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	snow		roads		nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: by=agent

Option 4

Cars need that snow to help them slow down at the corners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 snow	det
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 slow	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 corners	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corners	det
12	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	need	present	Cars	that snow		tree rules
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	that snow not said here	Cars = car		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	slow down not said to happen	infinitive	Cars = car not said here		the corners	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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