Test 3 · ★ · Airports and planes
The seat belt sign goes off and a boy unbuckles while sitting. What is better?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: belt sign, boy · What happens: go off, unbuckle, sit, be
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 271 «Airports and planes» 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: The seat belt sign goes off and a boy unbuckles while sitting.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sign | det |
| 2 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belt | compound |
| 3 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sign | compound |
| 4 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 goes | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 unbuckles | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 unbuckles | nsubj |
| 10 | unbuckles | unbuckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 goes | conj |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 sitting | mark |
| 12 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 unbuckles | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | present | the belt sign | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | unbuckle | present | a boy | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | a boy not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 better?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 better | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Unbuckle, because the sign is off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unbuckle | Unbuckle | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sign | punct |
| 3 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 sign | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sign | det |
| 5 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Unbuckle | appos |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 off | cop |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | 5 sign | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the sign not said here | off property | tree rules |
Option 2
Stand on the seat to stretch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 seat | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seat | det |
| 4 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stand | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stretch | mark |
| 6 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Stand | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | imperative | you not said here | the seat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seat=Location | ||||
| 2 | stretch | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Loosen it completely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loosen | loosen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Loosen | obj |
| 3 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 1 Loosen | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loosen | imperative | you not said here | it | completely property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Keep it fastened while seated in case of turbulence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 seated | mark |
| 5 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fastened | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 case | case |
| 7 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 turbulence | case |
| 9 | turbulence | turbulence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 case | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | it | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fasten | participle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | seat | participle | case of turbulence | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in case=Location |
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