Test 8 · How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people
The checking camera looks at 1,000 biscuits a minute. How many does it check in 3 minutes?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: checking camera, camera · What happens: check, look · To what, where: many
This is test 8 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: The checking camera looks at 1,000 biscuits a minute.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 camera | det |
| 2 | checking | check | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 camera | amod |
| 3 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 biscuits | case |
| 6 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 biscuits | nummod |
| 7 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looks | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 minute | det |
| 9 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 biscuits | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | look | present | the checking camera | at 1,000 biscuits a minute | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at biscuit=Theme |
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: How many does it check in 3 minutes?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 check | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 check | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 check | nsubj |
| 5 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 minutes | case |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 minutes | nummod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 check | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 check | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | present · do-support | camera | many | minute | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
30,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30,000 | 30,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
1,003
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,003 | 1,003 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
3,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,000 | 3000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
300
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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