Test 5 · How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people

«found a hair in me crisps, gross. how'd that even happen, they got nets» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 'd, best answer · What happens: find, happen, get, be · To what, where: hair, nets

This is test 5 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	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hair	det
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 found	obl
7	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gross	punct
9	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crisps	amod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gross	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 happen	advmod
12	'd	'd	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 happen	nsubj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 happen	nsubj
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 happen	advmod
15	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gross	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
19	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 got	obj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 got	obj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 What	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 answer	det
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 answer	amod
25	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 What	nsubj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a hair	in me; crisps obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Topic
2	happen in a quote	infinitive	'd			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get in a quote	past	'd	nets		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer net=Stimulus
4	is a	present	the best answer			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

Every packet gets a hair on purpose for luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 packet	det
2	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hair	det
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 purpose	case
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 luck	case
9	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	every packet	a hair		purpose		for luck	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hair=Theme on purpose=Source

Option 2

Potatoes grow hairs, and some stay on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stay	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stay	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 stay	nsubj
7	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	conj
8	on	on	ADV	_	7 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Potatoes	hairs					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Theme
2	stay on	present	some						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is rare thanks to nets and checks, and the factory wants to know so it can fix it

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thanks	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thanks	cop
3	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thanks	amod
4	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 nets	case
6	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thanks	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 checks	cc
8	checks	check	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nets	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wants	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wants	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 factory	det
12	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wants	nsubj
13	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thanks	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 know	mark
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wants	xcomp
16	so	so	SCONJ	_	19 fix	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fix	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fix	aux
19	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 know	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	rare thanks	to nets and checks	tree rules
2	want	present	the factory			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	the factory not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	fix	can	factory	thanks		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

The metal detector shakes hairs loose into bags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 detector	det
2	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 detector	compound
3	detector	detector	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shakes	nsubj
4	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shakes	obj
6	loose	loose	ADV	_	4 shakes	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 bags	case
8	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shakes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	present	the metal detector	hairs		bags		loose property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hair=Theme into bag=Destination

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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