Test 6 · Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones

«gonna fly my drone at the airport fence, wanna film the jets» What is the answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, jets · What happens: fly, film, be · To what, where: drone, airport fence, jets, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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	_	3 fly	punct
2	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 fly	dep
3	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 drone	nmod:poss
5	drone	drone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 fence	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fence	det
8	airport	airport	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fence	compound
9	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 film	punct
11	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	12 film	dep
12	film	film	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fly	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 jets	det
14	jets	jet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 film	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 jets	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 answer	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 answer	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 answer	det
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 jets	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fly in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my drone	the airport fence	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent drone=Theme at fence=Location
2	film in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the jets and the answer		vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jet=Theme
3	be speech: assert	present	the jets and the answer	the answer		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

Fine at night, when nobody can see it up there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fine	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 see	advmod
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 see	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fine	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 see	compound:prt
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see up	can	nobody	it		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Fine, if the drone is small and you keep it low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 small	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 small	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drone	det
5	drone	drone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 small	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fine	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 keep	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 keep	nsubj
10	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 small	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	obj
12	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the drone					small property	tree rules
2	keep	present	you	drone				low property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Fine, as long as you stay under the clouds and the fence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Fine	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 stay	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 stay	nsubj
7	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 clouds	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clouds	det
10	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stay	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fence	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fence	det
13	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clouds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	you			the clouds and the fence			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under cloud=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Never: it is illegal and can endanger planes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 illegal	advmod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 illegal	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 illegal	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 illegal	cop
5	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 endanger	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 endanger	aux
8	endanger	endanger	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 illegal	conj
9	planes	plane	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 endanger	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	it					illegal property	tree rules
2	endanger	can		planes					tree rules

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