Test 10 · ★★★ · Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Ear…
The book ends with Alice waking up on the river bank. Why can the fall, the sizes and the pool of tears break the real rules of science?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: book, fall, science · What happens: end, wake up, break, rule · To what, where: river bank, real rules
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» 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: The book ends with Alice waking up on the river bank.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | nsubj |
| 3 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 Alice | case |
| 5 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | obl |
| 6 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ends | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 waking | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bank | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bank | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bank | compound |
| 11 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waking | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | the book | with Alice | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with alice=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | wake up | gerund | the book not said here | the river bank | vn other_cos-45.4 «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.
Sentence 2: Why can the fall, the sizes and the pool of tears break the real rules of science?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 break | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 break | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fall | det |
| 4 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 break | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sizes | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sizes | det |
| 7 | sizes | size | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fall | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pool | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pool | det |
| 10 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tears | case |
| 12 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pool | nmod |
| 13 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rules | det |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rules | amod |
| 16 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 break | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 science | case |
| 18 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rules | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 break | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | can | the fall and the sizes and the pool of tears | the real rules of science | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rule | science | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
The options
Option 1
Because the rules were different in 1865
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 different | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rules | det |
| 3 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 different | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 different | cop |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1865 | case |
| 7 | 1865 | 1865 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 different | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rules | 1865 | different property | tree rules |
Option 2
Because Wonderland is on the Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 Moon | mark |
| 2 | Wonderland | Wonderland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Moon | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Moon | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Moon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Moon | det |
| 6 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Wonderland | the Moon | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Because it was all a dream
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 dream | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dream | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dream | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 dream | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dream | det |
| 6 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | all dream | tree rules |
Option 4
Because Alice was a magician
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 magician | mark |
| 2 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 magician | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 magician | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 magician | det |
| 5 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Alice | a magician | tree rules |
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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