Test 11 · Trains and the Underground
Which country's bullet trains are famous for being on time?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bullet trains · What happens: be
This is test 11 of lesson 21 «Trains and the Underground» 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 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trains | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 country | case |
| 4 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trains | compound |
| 5 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 famous | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 famous | cop |
| 7 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 time | cop |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 famous | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 famous | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which country's bullet trains | famous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | for time | 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
Egypt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Canada
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Japan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Brazil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/t11/