Test 12 · ★★★ · Water safety and the ocean

Why does a lorry not fall through the ice of a frozen northern lake?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: not fall, freeze · To what, where: ice

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 13 «Water safety and the ocean» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 fall	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lorry	det
4	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fall	advmod
6	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 ice	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ice	det
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 lake	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lake	det
12	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 lake	amod
13	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lake	amod
14	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ice	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall	present · do-support				the ice of a frozen northern lake			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through ice=Location
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: 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.

The options

Option 1

The lorry has no weight on ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lorry	det
2	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 weight	det
5	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 ice	case
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weight	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the lorry	no weight		ice			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient

Option 2

The water below holds the lorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holds	nsubj
3	below	below	ADV	_	2 water	advmod
4	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lorry	det
6	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	the water	the lorry					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lorry=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The ice is thick and very cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ice	det
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thick	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thick	cop
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cold	cc
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 cold	advmod
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ice					thick property	tree rules
2	be		the ice not said here						tree rules

Option 4

The lorry is driven very fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lorry	det
2	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driven	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 driven	aux:pass
4	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 driven	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	present · passive		the lorry				fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory

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