Test 1 · Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones

«black box is black, duh, it's in the name» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: black box, box · What happens: be · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 23 «Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 black	punct
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 black	cop
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 name	punct
7	duh	duh	INTJ	_	13 name	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 duh	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 name	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 name	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 name	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 name	det
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 black	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 black	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 black	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	black box		black property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	box	the name		tree rules
3	is	present			right 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is black on the outside, but bright orange and yellow inside the case

The tree, 14 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	3 black	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 black	cop
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 outside	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 outside	det
6	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 black	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 orange	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 orange	cc
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 orange	amod
10	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 black	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 yellow	cc
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 black	conj
13	inside	inside	ADP	_	15 case	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 case	det
15	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 yellow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	the outside	black property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	be			the case		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is bright orange so it can be found after an accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 orange	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 orange	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 orange	cop
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 orange	amod
6	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 found	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj:pass
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 found	aux:pass
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 orange	advcl
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 accident	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 accident	det
14	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					orange property	tree rules
2	find	can · passive		it			after a accident		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3

It changes colour after an accident

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 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obj
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 accident	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 accident	det
6	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	It	colour			after a accident		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

Option 4

Yes, it is black so it stays hidden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 black	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 black	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 black	cop
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 stays	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stays	nsubj
8	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 black	advcl
9	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 stays	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	it	black property	tree rules
2	stay	present	it		tree rules
3	hide	participle			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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