Test 2 · ★★ · Resources and what countries trade
A huge ship gets stuck sideways in the Suez Canal for a week. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: huge ship · What happens: get, happen · To what, where: stuck sideways, Suez Canal
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Resources and what countries trade» of the geography 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 huge ship gets stuck sideways in the Suez Canal for a week.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ship | amod |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sideways | amod |
| 6 | sideways | sideway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gets | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Canal | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Canal | det |
| 9 | Suez | Suez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Canal | compound |
| 10 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sideways | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 week | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 week | det |
| 13 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a huge ship | stuck sideways | the Suez Canal | week | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sideway=Stimulus |
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: What happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Hundreds of ships are delayed and goods arrive late
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 arrive | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 ships | case |
| 3 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 delayed | obl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 delayed | cop |
| 5 | delayed | delayed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hundreds | acl:relcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 goods | cc |
| 7 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Hundreds | conj |
| 8 | arrive | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 arrive | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Hundreds and goods not said here | of ships; delayed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrive | present | Hundreds and goods | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, the other ships simply sail round it on the wide canal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 sail | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ships | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ships | amod |
| 5 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sail | nsubj |
| 6 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 7 sail | advmod |
| 7 | sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sail | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 canal | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 canal | det |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 canal | amod |
| 13 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sail | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | present | the other ships | the wide canal | round it; simply property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round it=Trajectory |
Option 3
The canal moves to a new place
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 canal | det |
| 2 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | nsubj |
| 3 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 place | amod |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | the canal | a new place | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to place=Trajectory |
Option 4
All trade between countries stops forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 trade | det |
| 2 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stops | nsubj |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 countries | case |
| 4 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trade | nmod |
| 5 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 5 stops | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | all trade between countries | forever property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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