Test 5 · ★★★ · Water safety and the ocean
Your sister stands up in a canoe to wave. What will probably happen?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister · What happens: stand up, wave, happen · To what, where: canoe
This is test 5 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: Your sister stands up in a canoe to wave.
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 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | nsubj |
| 3 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 stands | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 canoe | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 canoe | det |
| 7 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wave | mark |
| 9 | wave | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 canoe | acl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | present | Your sister | a canoe | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in canoe=Location | ||||
| 2 | wave | to-infinitive | Your sister not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 will probably happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 happen | advmod |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | future | probably property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The canoe goes faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 canoe | det |
| 2 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 goes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the canoe | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The canoe tips over
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 canoe | det |
| 2 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tips | nsubj |
| 3 | tips | tip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 tips | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tip over | present | the canoe | over property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
The canoe sinks slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 canoe | det |
| 2 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sinks | nsubj |
| 3 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 sinks | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | present | the canoe | slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Nothing at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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