Test 9 · ★ · Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons

People crossing a river on a bottle raft should also...

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: People · What happens: cross · To what, where: river, bottle raft

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 12 «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» of the physics 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 should	nsubj
2	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 People	acl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crossing	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 raft	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 raft	det
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raft	compound
8	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crossing	obl
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	also	also	ADV	_	9 should	advmod
11	...	...	PUNCT	_	9 should	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund	People not said here	a river		a bottle raft			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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.

The options

Option 1

Open all the bottles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bottles	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bottles	det
4	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Open	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	imperative	you not said here	all bottles					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bottle=Theme

Option 2

Fill the bottles with water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottles	det
3	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fill	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	imperative	you not said here	the bottles				with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient with water=Instrument

Option 3

Sit on the edge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 edge	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 edge	det
4	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here			the edge			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wear life jackets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jackets	compound
3	jackets	jacket	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	imperative	you not said here	life jackets					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=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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