Exam question 1 · Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the depth of moving floodwater sufficient to knock a person down?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: depth · What happens: follow, characteris, move, knock down · To what, where: depth, person

This is exam question 1 of lesson 300 «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 depth	det
10	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 moving	mark
12	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 depth	acl
13	floodwater	floodwat	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 sufficient	advmod
14	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 moving	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 knock	mark
16	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sufficient	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 person	det
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knock	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	16 knock	compound:prt
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the depth	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	move	gerund	the depth not said here		sufficient property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	knock down	to-infinitive	the depth not said here	a person		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent person=Patient

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

Approximately two metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 metres	nummod
3	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately fifteen centimetres, or six inches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 centimetres	advmod
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 centimetres	nummod
3	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 centimetres	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 inches	cc
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 inches	nummod
7	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 centimetres	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Floodwater is unable to knock a grown person down at any depth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floodwater	floodwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unable	cop
3	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 knock	mark
5	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unable	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 person	amod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knock	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	5 knock	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 depth	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 depth	det
12	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knock	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Floodwater			unable property	tree rules
2	knock down	to-infinitive	Floodwater not said here	a grown person	any depth		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent person=Theme at depth=Destination
3	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Approximately one metre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 metre	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 metre	nummod
3	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain/e1/