Test 10 · ★★ · Pools, lakes and ice

pond's frozen, can we go on it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: freeze, go · To what, where: pond

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 45 «Pools, lakes and ice» 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	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frozen	nsubj:pass
2	's	's	PART	_	1 pond	case
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 frozen	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle · passive		pond					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	go	can	we			pond			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on it=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

Yes, near the stream is best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 best	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 stream	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stream	det
5	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 best	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 best	cop
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				the stream		good property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, ice is always thick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 thick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thick	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thick	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 thick	advmod
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	ice					always, thick property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Not unless an adult has checked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 checked	advmod
2	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	6 checked	mark
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 checked	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 checked	aux
6	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 checked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not check	present · perfect	a adult	it					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Yes, if it looks white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 looks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looks	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 looks	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looks	nsubj
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	it					white property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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