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Test 7 · Speed: fast and slow

A snail goes a metre in a few minutes. Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snail · What happens: go, be · To what, where: metre

This is test 7 of lesson 36 «Speed: fast and slow» 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: A snail goes a metre in a few minutes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snail	det
2	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 metre	det
5	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 minutes	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 minutes	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 minutes	amod
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 goes	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	a snail	a metre			minute		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location metre=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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Snails go about 100 kilometres an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 100	advmod
4	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 kilometres	nummod
5	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	obl:unmarked
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kilometres	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go about	present	Snails	100 kilometres a hour					vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A cheetah could cover the same metre in a blink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cheetah	det
2	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cover	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cover	aux
4	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 metre	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 metre	amod
7	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cover	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 blink	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 blink	det
10	blink	blink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cover	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	could	a cheetah	the same metre				in a blink	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent metre=Destination in blink=Theme

Option 3

A snail never moves at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snail	det
2	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moves	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 moves	advmod
4	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	present	a snail			all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 4

A snail is faster than a person walking along the pavement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snail	det
2	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faster	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 faster	cop
4	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 person	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faster	obl
8	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 person	acl
9	along	along	ADP	_	11 pavement	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pavement	det
11	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a snail					than a person; fast property	tree rules
2	walk	gerund	a person not said here			the pavement			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along pavement=Trajectory

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