Test 8 · ★ · Ships, ports and submarines

«that anchor's just a big hook, weighs like a bike, right» How heavy can a giant ship's anchor be?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big hook, anchor · What happens: weigh, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	8 hook	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 anchor	det
3	anchor	anchor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hook	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 anchor	case
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 hook	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hook	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hook	amod
8	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weighs	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hook	punct
10	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 bike	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bike	det
13	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weighs	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heavy	punct
15	right	right	ADV	_	18 heavy	advmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 right	punct
17	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 heavy	advmod
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weighs	parataxis
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 be	aux
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 ship	det
21	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ship	amod
22	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 anchor	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 ship	case
24	anchor	anchor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 be	nsubj
25	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 heavy	conj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 weighs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh in a quote	present	that anchor's big hook					like a bike	tree rules
2	can	can	a giant ship's anchor						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Heavier than ten cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 ten	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 Heavier	fixed
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cars	nummod
4	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

About as heavy as one bike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 heavy	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 heavy	advmod
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 bike	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 bike	nummod
6	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heavy	obl

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

About as heavy as one family car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 heavy	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 heavy	advmod
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 car	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 family	nummod
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 car	compound
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heavy	obl

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

Option 4

About as heavy as a school bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 heavy	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 heavy	advmod
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 bag	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bag	det
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bag	compound
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heavy	obl

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

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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