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Test 7 · ★★ · The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantin…

A friend says the Sea Rat could sail from Marseilles to Lisbon without leaving the Mediterranean. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, Sea Rat · What happens: say, sail, leave, be · To what, where: Lisbon, Marseilles, Mediterranean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: A friend says the Sea Rat could sail from Marseilles to Lisbon without leaving the Mediterranean.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	8 sail	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sail	aux
8	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 Marseilles	case
10	Marseilles	Marseilles	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sail	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Lisbon	case
12	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sail	obl
13	without	without	SCONJ	_	14 leaving	mark
14	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sail	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Mediterranean	det
16	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 leaving	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sail	could	the Sea Rat		Lisbon	Marseilles			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from marseilles=Trajectory
3	leave	gerund	the Sea Rat not said here	the Mediterranean					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mediterranean=Theme

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 is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Lisbon is an island in the very middle of the Mediterranean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 island	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 island	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 island	det
4	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 middle	advmod
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 island	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Mediterranean	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Mediterranean	det
11	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lisbon	a island		the middle of the Mediterranean			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing is wrong, he can stay in that sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stay	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stay	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	aux
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wrong	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					wrong property	tree rules
2	stay	can	he			that sea			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Lisbon is on the Atlantic, so he must pass the Strait of Gibraltar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Atlantic	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Atlantic	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 Atlantic	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Atlantic	det
5	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pass	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 pass	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pass	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pass	aux
10	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 Atlantic	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Strait	det
12	Strait	Strait	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pass	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Gibraltar	case
14	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Strait	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lisbon			the Atlantic			tree rules
2	pass	must	Lisbon	the Strait of Gibraltar					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme strait=Trajectory

Option 4

Lisbon is on a big river in the north of Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 river	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 river	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 river	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 river	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 river	amod
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 north	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 north	det
9	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 river	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Africa	case
11	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 north	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lisbon			a big river		in the north of Africa	tree rules

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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