Test 11 · Climbing trees and playgrounds
which bit of the branch do i stand on, near trunk or the end
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bit · What happens: stand on · To what, where: trunk
This is test 11 of lesson 4 «Climbing trees and playgrounds» 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 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 bit | det |
| 2 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 branch | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 branch | det |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bit | nmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stand | aux |
| 7 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 stand | nsubj |
| 8 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 stand | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trunk | punct |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 trunk | case |
| 12 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stand | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 end | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trunk | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand on | present · do-support | which bit of the branch | trunk or the end | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near trunk=Location |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Near the trunk, it is strongest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 3 trunk | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trunk | det |
| 3 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strongest | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 trunk | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 strongest | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 strongest | cop |
| 7 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | trunk | the trunk | strong property | tree rules |
Option 2
Out at the end, it bends nicely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 4 end | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bends | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bends | nsubj |
| 7 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 7 bends | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present | end | at the end | nicely property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location |
Option 3
Wherever the leaves are thickest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 thickest | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leaves | det |
| 3 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thickest | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thickest | cop |
| 5 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the leaves | thick, wherever property | tree rules |
Option 4
In the middle of the air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
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.
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