Test 3 · Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones

Your little brother wants to ride the baggage carousel like a roundabout. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little brother · What happens: want, ride, be · To what, where: baggage carousel

This is test 3 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

Sentence 1: Your little brother wants to ride the baggage carousel like a roundabout.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ride	mark
6	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 carousel	det
8	baggage	baggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carousel	compound
9	carousel	carousel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 roundabout	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 roundabout	det
12	roundabout	roundabout	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Your little brother						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ride not said to happen	to-infinitive	Your little brother not said here	the baggage carousel				like a roundabout	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carousel=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: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is fine because it moves slowly and has soft rubber flaps all round the edge

The tree, 16 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 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 moves	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 moves	nsubj
6	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 moves	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 has	cc
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 moves	conj
10	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flaps	amod
11	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flaps	compound
12	flaps	flap	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 has	obj
13	all	all	ADV	_	16 edge	advmod
14	round	round	ADP	_	16 edge	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 edge	det
16	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flaps	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			fine property	tree rules
2	move	present	it		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present		soft rubber flaps	round the edge	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Patient

Option 2

Only if Mum rides with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 rides	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 rides	mark
3	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rides	nsubj
4	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	Mum					with him = he	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is fine if he holds on tight

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 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 holds	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 holds	nsubj
6	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 holds	compound:prt
8	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 holds	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	hold on a condition, not said to happen	present	he					tight property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Never climb on it: it moves bags, not people, and can trap you

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 climb	advmod
2	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climb	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 moves	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 moves	nsubj
7	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 climb	advcl
8	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 moves	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 people	advmod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bags	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trap	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 trap	cc
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 trap	aux
15	trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 climb	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 trap	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not climb	imperative	you not said here		it	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
2	move	present	it	bags and people		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
3	trap	can		you		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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