Test 5 · ★ · Ships, ports and submarines

«ugh, why do all the containers look the same, so boring» What is the smart answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: containers · What happens: look, be · To what, where: same, smart answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	_	9 look	punct
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	5 do	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 look	aux
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 containers	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 containers	det
8	containers	container	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 same	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 boring	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 boring	advmod
14	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	parataxis
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 boring	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 answer	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boring	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present · do-support	all containers	the same					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute
2	be speech: assert	present		the smart 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 · ← Mova's choice

Because nobody had paint of other colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 colours	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colours	amod
7	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paint	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	nobody	paint of other colours					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Patient

Option 2

Because they all belong to one shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 belong	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 belong	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 belong	advmod
4	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 shop	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 shop	nummod
7	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	they					to one shop	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 3

So that they all float together in a neat line when they get dropped in the sea

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 float	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 float	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 float	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 float	advmod
5	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 float	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 line	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 line	det
9	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 line	amod
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 float	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 dropped	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dropped	nsubj
13	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dropped	aux:pass
14	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 float	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	they			a neat line		together property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory
2	drop	present · passive		they		the sea			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in sea=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So any crane, ship, train or lorry in the world can handle them

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	14 handle	advmod
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 crane	det
3	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 handle	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ship	punct
5	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crane	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 train	punct
7	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crane	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 lorry	cc
9	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 train	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crane	nmod
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 handle	aux
14	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 handle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	handle	can	any crane in the world and ship and train or lorry	train					vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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