Test 4 · ★★ · The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantin…
The Sea Rat says the port he comes from is Constantinople. Where would you find it on a map today?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sea Rat, Rat, port, you · What happens: say, come, be, find · To what, where: port, Constantinople, map · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ 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 says the port he comes from is Constantinople.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rat | det |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rat | compound |
| 3 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 port | det |
| 6 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Constantinople | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 port | acl:relcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 comes | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Constantinople | cop |
| 11 | Constantinople | Constantinople | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Sea Rat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | present | Rat | the port not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location port=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the port | Constantinople | 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 would you find it on a map today?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 find | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 map | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 map | det |
| 8 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 9 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | would | you | port | a map | today | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Lisbon, the capital of Portugal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lisbon | Lisbon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 capital | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 capital | det |
| 4 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lisbon | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Portugal | case |
| 6 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 capital | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Venice, in the north of Italy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 north | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 north | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 north | det |
| 5 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Venice | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Italy | case |
| 7 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 north | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Istanbul in Turkey, on the Bosphorus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Istanbul | Istanbul | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Turkey | case |
| 3 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Istanbul | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bosphorus | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Bosphorus | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bosphorus | det |
| 7 | Bosphorus | Bosphorus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Istanbul | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Athens, the capital of Greece
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 capital | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 capital | det |
| 4 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Athens | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Greece | case |
| 6 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 capital | 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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