Test 15 · ★ · Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet

saw water on the road on a hot day but it vanished when we got close

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: water, we · What happens: see, vanish, get · To what, where: water, road

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 280 «Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet» 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	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 saw	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 saw	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 saw	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 vanished	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 vanished	nsubj
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 saw	conj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 got	advmod
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 vanished	advcl
16	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past		water	the road	day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus
2	vanish	past	water					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	we				close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

A trick of the car's windscreen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 trick	det
2	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 windscreen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 car	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 windscreen	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 car	case
7	windscreen	windscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trick	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick			the car's windscreen					nom trick «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A mirage, hot air bending light from the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mirage	det
2	mirage	mirage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 air	punct
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 air	amod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mirage	appos
6	bending	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 air	acl
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bending	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 sky	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sky	det
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	gerund	hot air not said here	light		the sky			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material

Option 3

Real water that dried up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dried	nsubj
4	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 water	acl:relcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 dried	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry up	past	Real water						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

A puddle that the car in front splashed away as it drove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 puddle	det
2	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drove	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 splashed	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 car	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 splashed	nsubj:pass
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 car	nmod
8	splashed	splash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 puddle	acl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 splashed	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 splashed	obl
12	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splash away	participle · passive	a puddle not said here	the car in front				as puddle; away property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	drive	past	a puddle						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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