Test 1 · ★ · Ships, ports and submarines

«a steel ship floats coz steel floats in salt water, simple» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: steel ship · What happens: float, be · To what, where: coz steel, salt water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 24 «Ships, ports and submarines» 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 floats	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ship	det
3	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ship	compound
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floats	nsubj
5	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 floats	nsubj
6	coz	coz	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 steel	amod
7	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floats	obj
8	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 water	compound
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 floats	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 simple	punct
13	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 floats	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 simple	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	8 floats	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 floats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	float in a quote	present	a steel ship	coz steel			vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location steel=Theme
2	float in a quote	present			salt water		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

No, ships float because their engines keep pushing them up out of the water

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 float	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 float	punct
3	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 float	nsubj
4	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 keep	mark
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 engines	nmod:poss
7	engines	engine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	nsubj
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 float	advcl
9	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	xcomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pushing	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 pushing	compound:prt
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 water	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pushing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	float	present	ships			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	ships's engines			tree rules
3	push up	gerund	ships's engines not said here	engines = engine	the water	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme out water=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, a steel nail sinks; the ship floats because of its hollow shape

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 sinks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nail	det
4	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nail	compound
5	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sinks	nsubj
6	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 floats	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ship	det
9	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floats	nsubj
10	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sinks	conj
11	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	15 shape	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 because	fixed
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shape	nmod:poss
14	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shape	amod
15	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	present	a steel nail						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	float	present	the ship					because ship's hollow shape	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, but only in very cold water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 water	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 water	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 water	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 cold	advmod
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, all steel floats in salty water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 floats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 steel	det
4	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floats	nsubj
5	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	all steel			salty water			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory

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