Test 4 · Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones

«why the heck do i need a whole control tower, can't pilots just look out the window» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: heck, pilots · What happens: need, not look out, be · To what, where: whole control tower, window

This is test 4 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	_	7 need	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 need	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heck	det
4	heck	heck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 need	aux
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tower	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tower	amod
10	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tower	compound
11	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 look	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 look	advmod
15	pilots	pilot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 look	nsubj
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 look	advmod
17	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 need	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 look	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 window	det
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 right	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 right	cop
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 look	conj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present · do-support	the heck	a whole control tower		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tower=Theme
2	not look out in a quote	can	pilots	the window		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

Pilots really do just look and swerve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pilots	pilot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 look	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 look	advmod
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 swerve	cc
7	swerve	swerve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 look	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · do-support	Pilots						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	swerve	infinitive	Pilots not said here						vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Thousands of planes fly at once, and controllers use radar and radio to keep them apart

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fly	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 planes	case
3	planes	plane	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod
4	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 fly	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 use	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 use	cc
9	controllers	controller	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	nsubj
10	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	conj
11	radar	radar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 radio	cc
13	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 radar	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 use	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keep	obj
17	apart	apart	ADV	_	15 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly	present	Thousands of planes			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	use	present	controllers	radar and radio		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radar=Patient
3	keep	to-infinitive	controllers not said here	radar	apart property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

The tower is only for weather reports

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tower	det
2	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reports	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reports	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 reports	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 reports	case
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reports	compound
7	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tower					for weather reports	tree rules

Option 4

Control towers only sell tickets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 towers	compound
2	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sell	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 sell	advmod
4	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tickets	ticket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	Control towers	tickets					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme

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