Test 4 · ★ · Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing

Which day dries washing on the line fastest, most often?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: day · What happens: dry, wash · To what, where: fastest, line

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 12 «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dries	nsubj
3	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 dries	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 line	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 line	det
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 washing	obl
8	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 washing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 often	punct
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 often	advmod
11	often	often	ADV	_	3 dries	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dries	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	present	which day					often property	tree rules
2	wash	gerund	which day not said here	fastest		the line			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

A still, foggy day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
2	still	still	ADV	_	4 foggy	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 still	punct
4	foggy	foggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A windy day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A rainy day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A still, damp day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
2	still	still	ADV	_	4 damp	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 still	punct
4	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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