Test 2 · ★ · Ships, ports and submarines
Lily squashes her clay boat into a ball and puts it back in the bowl. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lily · What happens: squash, put back, happen · To what, where: clay boat, ball, boat, bowl
This is test 2 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Lily squashes her clay boat into a ball and puts it back in the bowl.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 squashes | nsubj |
| 2 | squashes | squash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 boat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boat | compound |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squashes | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 ball | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ball | det |
| 8 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squashes | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 puts | cc |
| 10 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 squashes | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 puts | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 puts | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bowl | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bowl | det |
| 15 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 puts | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 squashes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | present | Lily | Lily's clay boat | a ball | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boat=Theme into ball=Destination | |||
| 2 | put back | present | Lily not said here | boat | the bowl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bowl=Destination |
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 happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It sinks, because a lump pushes aside too little water
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 sinks | nsubj |
| 2 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pushes | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 pushes | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lump | det |
| 6 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pushes | nsubj |
| 7 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sinks | conj |
| 8 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 7 pushes | advmod |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 little | advmod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 water | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pushes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | present | It | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | push | present | a lump | little water | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
Option 2
It spins round in the water
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 spins | nsubj |
| 2 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 spins | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spins | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin round | present | It | the water | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory |
Option 3
It floats the same, because it is the same clay and the same weight as before
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 | 2 floats | nsubj |
| 2 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 floats | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clay | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 clay | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 clay | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 clay | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clay | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clay | amod |
| 11 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 floats | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 weight | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 weight | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 weight | amod |
| 15 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clay | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 before | advmod |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 2 floats | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | It | the same | before property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location same=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | it | the same clay and the same weight | tree rules |
Option 4
It floats higher, because it is rounder
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 floats | nsubj |
| 2 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 floats | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rounder | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 rounder | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rounder | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rounder | cop |
| 8 | rounder | round | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 floats | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | It | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | round property | tree rules |
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