Test 1 · How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people

«my uncle reckons robots made all the workers vanish, factories got nobody in em now» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: uncle, robots, factories · What happens: reckon, make, vanish, get, be · To what, where: robots, nobody, em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 1 «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the technology 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 uncle	nmod:poss
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 vanish	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 robots	acl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 workers	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 workers	det
9	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl:agent
10	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reckons	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
12	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckons	parataxis
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 got	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 em	case
16	em	em	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obl
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 got	advmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 got	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon in a quote	present	my uncle					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make in a quote	participle		robots not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	vanish in a quote	present	robots					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get in a quote	past	factories	nobody	em	now		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus
5	is	present					right 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

People still design, program, fix and check the machines and run the lines

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 design	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 design	advmod
3	design	design	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 program	punct
5	program	program	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 design	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fix	punct
7	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 design	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 check	cc
9	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fix	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 machines	det
11	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 check	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 run	cc
13	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 design	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lines	det
15	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 run	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	design	present	People	program	still	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent program=Result
2	fix	infinitive	People not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	check	infinitive	People not said here	the machines		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Theme
4	run	infinitive	People not said here	the lines		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Trajectory

Option 2

Only cleaners still work in factories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 cleaners	advmod
2	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 factories	case
6	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	cleaners				still	in factories	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in factory=Theme

Option 3

Robots now hire and pay the few workers left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hire	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 hire	advmod
3	hire	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pay	cc
5	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hire	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 workers	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 workers	amod
8	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pay	obj
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 workers	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hire	present	Robots		now	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	pay	present	Robots not said here	the few workers		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Asset
3	leave	participle		the few workers not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He's right, no factory has any people left in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 factory	det
6	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 people	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			right property	tree rules
2	have	present	no factory	any people			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
3	leave	participle		any people not said here	factory		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in it=Result

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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