Test 7 · ★★ · Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shi…
A girl goes into a bathing machine in a long dress and comes out into the sea in a bathing costume. What was the machine for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: go, come out, be · To what, where: bathing machine, sea
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 81 «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history 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 girl goes into a bathing machine in a long dress and comes out into the sea in a bathing costume.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 machine | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 machine | det |
| 6 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 machine | compound |
| 7 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dress | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dress | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dress | amod |
| 11 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 comes | cc |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 comes | compound:prt |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 costume | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 costume | det |
| 20 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 costume | compound |
| 21 | costume | costume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | a girl | a bathing machine | in a long dress | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into machine=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | come out | present | a girl not said here | the sea | in a bathing costume | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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 was the machine for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 machine | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 machine | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 machine | det |
| 4 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 machine | case |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 machine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | for the machine | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Changing in private and stepping straight into the water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 private | case |
| 3 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Changing | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stepping | cc |
| 5 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Changing | conj |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 stepping | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepping | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | private | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | step | gerund | the water | straight property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination |
Option 2
Washing the sand off her before she went home again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sand | det |
| 3 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Washing | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 1 Washing | obj |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 went | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | gerund | she not said here | the sand | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent sand=Beneficiary her=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | she | again | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Keeping her warm while the sea heated up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 warm | nmod:poss |
| 3 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keeping | obj |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 heated | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heated | nsubj |
| 7 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Keeping | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 heated | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | her warm | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warm=Theme | |||||
| 2 | heat up | participle | the sea | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Taking her out to a big ship anchored in the bay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Taking | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ship | amod |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obl |
| 8 | anchored | anchor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ship | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bay | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bay | det |
| 11 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 anchored | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | gerund | her = she | to a big ship | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | anchor | participle | a big ship not said here | the bay | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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