Test 4 · Lifting and carrying heavy things
Ella has to move a crate of water bottles across the garage. What is the wisest way?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella, wisest way · What happens: have, move, be · To what, where: crate, garage
This is test 4 of lesson 3 «Lifting and carrying heavy things» 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: Ella has to move a crate of water bottles across the garage.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 move | mark |
| 4 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 has | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crate | det |
| 6 | crate | crate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 move | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bottles | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bottles | compound |
| 9 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crate | nmod |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 garage | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garage | det |
| 12 | garage | garage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 move | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Ella | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive | Ella not said here | a crate of water bottles | the garage | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent crate=Theme across garage=Trajectory |
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 wisest way?
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 | 5 way | det |
| 4 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the wisest way | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Drag it along the floor with a twisted back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drag | drag | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Drag | obj |
| 3 | along | along | ADP | _ | 5 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drag | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 back | det |
| 8 | twisted | twisted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 back | amod |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drag | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | imperative | you not said here | it | along the floor; with a twisted back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2
Carry it on one shoulder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Carry | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 shoulder | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 shoulder | nummod |
| 5 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Carry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | imperative | you not said here | it | one shoulder | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Put it on a trolley and wheel it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 trolley | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trolley | det |
| 5 | trolley | trolley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wheel | cc |
| 7 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trolley | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | it | a trolley and wheel | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Asset it=Goal |
Option 4
Lift it over her head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Lift | obj |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lift | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | imperative | you not said here | it | her head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over head=Destination |
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