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Test 1 · ★ · Water, deserts and the shape of the land

You pull the plug in your sink five times and it swirls clockwise twice and anticlockwise three times. What does that show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, plug, that · What happens: pull, swirl, show · To what, where: plug, sink

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 16 «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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: You pull the plug in your sink five times and it swirls clockwise twice and anticlockwise three times.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 pull	nsubj
2	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plug	det
4	plug	plug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pull	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sink	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sink	nmod:poss
7	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pull	obl
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pull	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swirls	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swirls	nsubj
12	swirls	swirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pull	conj
13	clockwise	clockwise	ADV	_	12 swirls	advmod
14	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 swirls	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 times	cc
16	anticlockwise	anticlockwise	ADV	_	17 three	advmod
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 times	nummod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 twice	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pull	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	You	the plug		your sink	time		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plug=Theme
2	swirl	present	plug					clockwise, twice property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 does that show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	that						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Your house is exactly on the equator

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 house	nmod:poss
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 equator	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 equator	cop
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 equator	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 equator	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 equator	det
7	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your house			the equator		exactly property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The swirl depends on the sink and water, not the half of the world

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swirl	det
2	swirl	swirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depends	nsubj
3	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 sink	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sink	det
6	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depends	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 water	cc
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sink	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 half	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 half	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 half	det
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 sink	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 half	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend	present	the swirl					on the sink and water and the half of the world	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on sink=Theme

Option 3

The Coriolis effect changes every minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 effect	det
2	Coriolis	Coriolis	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 effect	compound
3	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changes	nsubj
4	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 minute	det
6	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	the Coriolis effect				minute		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Your sink is broken and needs fixing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sink	nmod:poss
2	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broken	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux:pass
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 needs	cc
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	conj
7	fixing	fixing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		Your sink					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	need	present		fixing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fixing=Theme

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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