Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★
Lily, from Glasgow: "Ma wee brother's 20 kilos an' sits 3 metres oot on the seesaw. Ah'm 30. Where dae Ah sit?" ("wee" means little, "oot" means out.)
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily, dae, wee, oot · What happens: sit, be, mean, mean out · To what, where: metres oot, seesaw, 30, little
This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» 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: Lily, from Glasgow: "Ma wee brother's 20 kilos an' sits 3 metres oot on the seesaw.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Glasgow | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Glasgow | case |
| 4 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lily | conj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 kilos | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 kilos | punct |
| 7 | Ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brother | compound |
| 8 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kilos | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 11 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 kilos | nummod |
| 12 | kilos | kilo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lily | appos |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ' | det |
| 14 | ' | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kilos | conj |
| 15 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 metres | nummod |
| 17 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 oot | compound |
| 18 | oot | oot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sits | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 seesaw | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 seesaw | det |
| 21 | seesaw | seesaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sits | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | present | Lily and Glasgow | metres oot | the seesaw | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent oot=Theme on seesaw=Location |
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: Ah'm 30.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 3 30 | discourse |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 30 | cop |
| 3 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 30 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 30 | tree rules |
Sentence 3: Where dae Ah sit?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 sit | advmod |
| 2 | dae | dae | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 sit | nsubj |
| 3 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 sit | discourse |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | infinitive | dae | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 4: ("wee" means little, "oot" means out.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wee | punct |
| 3 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wee | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 oot | punct |
| 9 | oot | oot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 oot | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 means | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | wee | little | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean out | present | oot | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
3 metres from the middle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 metres | nummod |
| 2 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 middle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 middle | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 metres | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
4 and a half metres out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 metres | nummod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 metres | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 half | det |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 metres | compound |
| 5 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 metres | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
2 metres from the middle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 metres | nummod |
| 2 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 middle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 middle | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 metres | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1 metre from the middle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 metre | nummod |
| 2 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 middle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 middle | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 metre | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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