Test 14 · ★ · Sun, cold and growing up
pond's frozen, can we walk on it
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: freeze, walk · To what, where: pond
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 86 «Sun, cold and growing up» 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 walk | punct |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 walk | aux |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 walk | nsubj |
| 7 | walk | walk | 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 walk | 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 | walk | can | we | pond | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |
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, if you run fast across
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 run | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 run | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 run | nsubj |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 run | advmod |
| 7 | across | across | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | you | across, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, ice can be too thin and break, stay off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 thin | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thin | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 thin | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thin | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 thin | advmod |
| 7 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 break | cc |
| 9 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thin | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stay | punct |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thin | parataxis |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 stay | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | ice | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | infinitive | ice not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | stay off | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, if it looks white it's safe
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 | SCONJ | _ | 9 safe | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 safe | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 safe | cop |
| 9 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looks | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | safe property | tree rules |
Option 4
Only near the middle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 middle | advmod |
| 2 | near | near | ADP | _ | 4 middle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 middle | det |
| 4 | middle | middle | 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.
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