Test 2 · ★★★ · Thinking like a lifeguard
A family on a camping trip counts 15 seconds between a flash and its thunder. About how far away is the lightning?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, lightning · What happens: count, thunder, be
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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: A family on a camping trip counts 15 seconds between a flash and its thunder.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 counts | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 trip | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trip | det |
| 5 | camping | camping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trip | compound |
| 6 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 family | nmod |
| 7 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 seconds | nummod |
| 9 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 counts | obj |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 flash | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flash | det |
| 12 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seconds | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thunder | cc |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 thunder | nmod:poss |
| 15 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flash | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 counts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | a family on a camping trip | second | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | thunder | family | nom thunder «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: About how far away is the lightning?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | SCONJ | _ | 4 away | mark |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 away | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 away | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lightning | det |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 away | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 away | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the lightning | away, far property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 15 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 15 | advmod |
| 2 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About 5 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 5 | advmod |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About half a kilometre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 half | advmod |
| 2 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 4 kilometre | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kilometre | det |
| 4 | kilometre | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 45 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 45 | advmod |
| 2 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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