Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★
Cerys, in Cardiff: "It's chucking it down, mun, and the thunder's a million miles off." She counts 6 seconds after the flash. How far is the storm?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cerys, thunder, Cardiff · What happens: chuck down, be, count · To what, where: it, million miles, storm
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» 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: Cerys, in Cardiff: "It's chucking it down, mun, and the thunder's a million miles off."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cerys | Cerys | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 chucking | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Cardiff | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Cardiff | case |
| 4 | Cardiff | Cardiff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cerys | conj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 chucking | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 chucking | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 chucking | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 chucking | aux |
| 9 | chucking | chuck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 chucking | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 chucking | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mun | punct |
| 13 | mun | mun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chucking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 miles | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 miles | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thunder | det |
| 17 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 miles | nsubj |
| 18 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 miles | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 million | det |
| 20 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 miles | nummod |
| 21 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 chucking | obl |
| 22 | off | off | ADV | _ | 21 miles | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 chucking | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 chucking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuck down in a quote | present · progressive | Cerys and Cardiff | it | mun obl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the thunder | million miles | off property | tree rules |
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: She counts 6 seconds after the flash.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 counts | nsubj |
| 2 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 seconds | nummod |
| 4 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 counts | obj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 flash | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flash | det |
| 7 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 counts | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 counts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | Cardiff | after the flash; second | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Sentence 3: How far is the storm?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 storm | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 storm | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 storm | det |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 storm | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the storm | far property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 6 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 6 | advmod |
| 2 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About 2 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2 | advmod |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 18 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 18 | advmod |
| 2 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A million miles away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 million | det |
| 2 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 miles | nummod |
| 3 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 miles | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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