Test 11 · ★★★ · Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Ear…
★★★ A toy brick 1 cm long weighs 1 gram. A brick of the same shape and stuff, 3 cm long, 3 cm wide and 3 cm tall, weighs how much?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, long, brick · What happens: ★, weigh · To what, where: toy brick, 1 gram, much
This is test 11 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ A toy brick 1 cm long weighs 1 gram.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 brick | det |
| 5 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brick | compound |
| 6 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | obj |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 cm | nummod |
| 8 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 long | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weighs | nsubj |
| 10 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ★ | parataxis |
| 11 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 gram | nummod |
| 12 | gram | gram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weighs | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | a toy brick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weigh | present | long | 1 gram | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value |
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: A brick of the same shape and stuff, 3 cm long, 3 cm wide and 3 cm tall, weighs how much?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 brick | det |
| 2 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 weighs | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 shape | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shape | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shape | amod |
| 6 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brick | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stuff | cc |
| 8 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shape | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cm | punct |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 cm | nummod |
| 11 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 long | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shape | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wide | punct |
| 14 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 cm | nummod |
| 15 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brick | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tall | cc |
| 18 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 cm | nummod |
| 19 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tall | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wide | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 brick | punct |
| 22 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 weighs | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 weighs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh | present | a brick of the same shape and stuff | much | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
3 grams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 grams | nummod |
| 2 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
27 grams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 grams | nummod |
| 2 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
9 grams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 grams | nummod |
| 2 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
6 grams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 grams | nummod |
| 2 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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