Test 11 · ★★ · The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantin…
★★★ The Sea Rat sails from Marseilles to Lisbon in 9 days, rests 3 days, then sails to Cornwall in 6 days. If he leaves Marseilles on 1 June, on what date does he reach Cornwall?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sea Rat, ★ · What happens: sail, rest, leave, reach · To what, where: Lisbon, Marseilles, Cornwall, date
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 62 «The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel» 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 Sea Rat sails from Marseilles to Lisbon in 9 days, rests 3 days, then sails to Cornwall in 6 days.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 rests | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | SCONJ | _ | 7 sails | mark |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rat | det |
| 5 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rat | compound |
| 6 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sails | nsubj |
| 7 | sails | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 ★ | advcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Marseilles | case |
| 9 | Marseilles | Marseilles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sails | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Lisbon | case |
| 11 | Lisbon | Lisbon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sails | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 13 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 days | nummod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sails | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 16 | rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 days | nummod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rests | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sails | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 sails | advmod |
| 21 | sails | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rests | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Cornwall | case |
| 23 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sails | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 25 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 days | nummod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sails | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 rests | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | present | the Sea Rat | Lisbon | Marseilles | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from marseilles=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | rest | present | ★ | day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sail | present | ★ not said here | Cornwall | then; day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to cornwall=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.
Sentence 2: If he leaves Marseilles on 1 June, on what date does he reach Cornwall?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 leaves | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 leaves | nsubj |
| 3 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reach | advcl |
| 4 | Marseilles | Marseilles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 June | case |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 June | nummod |
| 7 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reach | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 date | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 date | nsubj |
| 11 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reach | obl |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reach | aux |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reach | nsubj |
| 14 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reach | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 reach | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave a condition, not said to happen | present | ★ | Marseilles | june | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marseilles=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach | present · do-support | ★ | Cornwall | date | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cornwall=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
16 June
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 16 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
18 June
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 18 | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
21 June
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 21 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
19 June
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 19 | flat |
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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