Test 8 · ★★ · Heating, water pipes and drains

mate says the cold tap water comes straight from the river, no cleaning. true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, cold tap water · What happens: say, come · To what, where: river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Heating, water pipes and drains» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
5	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 river	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cleaning	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 cleaning	det
14	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 river	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 true	punct
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present	the cold tap water			the river and no cleaning			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from river=Initial_Location

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

Yes, the pipe goes straight to the river with nothing in between

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 goes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pipe	det
4	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 river	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 nothing	case
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 goes	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	11 nothing	acl
13	between	between	ADP	_	12 in	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the pipe			the river		with nothing	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, it comes from the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 comes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	it			the sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location

Option 3

Yes, rivers are perfectly clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 clean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clean	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clean	cop
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	6 clean	advmod
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is filtered and treated before it reaches us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 filtered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 filtered	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 filtered	aux:pass
5	filtered	filter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 treated	cc
7	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 filtered	conj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 reaches	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reaches	nsubj
10	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 filtered	advcl
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 reaches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	filter	present · passive		it	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Initial_Location
2	treat	participle			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	reach	present	it	us	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent we=Theme

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