Test 11 · ★ · Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games

my mate says dry sand makes better castles, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, dry sand · What happens: say, make · To what, where: better castles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 303 «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sand	amod
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 castles	amod
8	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 makes	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	6 makes	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	present	dry sand	better castles					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset castle=Product

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

Yes, wet sand just falls apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 falls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sand	amod
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falls	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 falls	advmod
6	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	apart	apart	ADV	_	6 falls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall apart	present	wet sand					apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yes, dry sand packs tighter and stays up longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 dry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sand	amod
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 packs	nsubj
5	packs	pack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tighter	tight	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 packs	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stays	cc
8	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 packs	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 stays	compound:prt
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 stays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	present	dry sand					tight property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
2	stay up	present	dry sand not said here					long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Only if you add pebbles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 add	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 add	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 add	nsubj
4	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 add	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	you	pebbles					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, damp sand holds its shape better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 damp	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sand	amod
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holds	nsubj
5	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shape	nmod:poss
7	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holds	obj
8	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 holds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	damp sand	sand's shape				well property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme

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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