Test 2 · ★★ · The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to…
★★ The Whale swims due east from 50° North, 40° West, keeping to 50° North, until longitude is 5° West. Where is it now?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, longitude · What happens: swim, keep, be · To what, where: 50
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 61 «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey» 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: ★★ The Whale swims due east from 50° North, 40° West, keeping to 50° North, until longitude is 5° West.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 swims | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Whale | case |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Whale | det |
| 4 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 swims | xcomp |
| 7 | east | east | ADV | _ | 9 50 | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 50 | case |
| 9 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 swims | obl |
| 10 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 11 North | case |
| 11 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 50 | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 40 | punct |
| 13 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 50 | conj |
| 14 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 15 West | case |
| 15 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 40 | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 keeping | punct |
| 17 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 swims | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 50 | case |
| 19 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 keeping | obl |
| 20 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 21 North | case |
| 21 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 50 | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ° | punct |
| 23 | until | until | ADP | _ | 27 ° | case |
| 24 | longitude | longitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ° | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 ° | cop |
| 26 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 ° | nummod |
| 27 | ° | ° | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keeping | obl |
| 28 | West | west | ADV | _ | 27 ° | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swims | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | present | ★ ★ the Whale | 50 ° North | due property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from 50=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | keep | gerund | ★ ★ the Whale not said here | to 50 ° North | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | longitude | until 5 ° | west property | tree rules |
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: Where is it now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Where | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | longitude | now | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Off the coast of Australia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 3 coast | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coast | det |
| 3 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Australia | case |
| 5 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 coast | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Near Cornwall, in south-west England
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 2 Cornwall | case |
| 2 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 England | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 England | case |
| 5 | south | south | ADV | _ | 7 west | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 south | punct |
| 7 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 England | amod |
| 8 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Cornwall | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
At the South Pole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Pole | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Pole | det |
| 3 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Pole | compound |
| 4 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In the middle of the Sahara Desert
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 | _ | 7 Desert | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Desert | det |
| 6 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Desert | compound |
| 7 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | 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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