Test 7 · How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people

«why'd they put a metal ball in a packet on purpose, are they thick or what?» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: put, be · To what, where: metal ball, packet

This is test 7 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

Sentence 1: «why'd they put a metal ball in a packet on purpose, are they thick or what?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 put	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ball	det
7	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ball	compound
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 packet	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 packet	det
11	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 purpose	case
13	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thick	punct
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thick	cop
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thick	nsubj
17	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 put	parataxis
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 what	cc
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 thick	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	would	they	a metal ball		a packet		on purpose	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme on purpose=Destination
2	is in a quote	present	they					thick 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: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	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	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It is a prize for a lucky customer to find

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 prize	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prize	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 prize	det
4	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 customer	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 customer	det
7	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 customer	amod
8	customer	customer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prize	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 customer	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a prize				for a lucky customer	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a test to prove the metal detector still throws bad packets out

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 test	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 test	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 test	det
4	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throws	parataxis
5	to	to	PART	_	6 prove	mark
6	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 test	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 detector	det
8	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 detector	compound
9	detector	detector	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prove	obj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 throws	advmod
11	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 packets	amod
13	packets	packet	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 throws	obj
14	out	out	ADV	_	11 throws	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a test			tree rules
2	prove	to-infinitive		the metal detector			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detector=Theme
3	throw out	present		bad packets	still	out property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packet=Theme

Option 3

It is a little mistake that the workers keep making every day on the line

The tree, 15 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	5 mistake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mistake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mistake	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mistake	amod
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 keep	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 workers	det
8	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	nsubj
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mistake	acl:relcl
10	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keep	xcomp
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 making	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 line	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 line	det
15	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 making	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a little mistake			tree rules
2	keep	present	the workers	a little mistake			tree rules
3	make	gerund	a little mistake not said here		the line	day	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4

It makes the packet heavy enough for the scales

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 packet	det
4	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 scales	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 scales	det
9	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heavy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the packet				heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material packet=Product

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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