Test 9 · ★ · Ships, ports and submarines

«mate reckons lighthouses still have lonely keepers living in them» What is true for British lighthouses?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, lighthouses, lonely keepers · What happens: reckon, have, live, be · To what, where: lonely keepers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	3 reckons	punct
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lighthouses	lighthouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
7	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keepers	amod
8	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
9	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keepers	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 living	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 living	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 true	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 true	cop
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 living	parataxis
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 lighthouses	case
17	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lighthouses	amod
18	lighthouses	lighthouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 true	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reckon in a quote	present	mate				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have in a quote	present	lighthouses	lonely keepers	still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keeper=Patient
3	live in a quote	gerund	lonely keepers not said here			in lighthouses = lighthouse	tree rules
4	is	present				for British lighthouses; true 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

Every one has a keeper and a cat living in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 keeper	det
5	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cat	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeper	conj
9	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keeper	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	every one	a keeper and a cat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keeper=Patient
2	live	gerund	a keeper and a cat not said here					in cat	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location

Option 2

They are all run by the RNLI's volunteers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 run	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
4	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 volunteers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 RNLI	det
7	RNLI	RNLI	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 volunteers	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 RNLI	case
9	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present · passive	the RNLI's volunteers	They				all property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They now run automatically, without keepers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 run	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 run	advmod
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	3 run	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keepers	punct
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 keepers	case
7	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	They				now	without keepers; automatically property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They are only switched on at Christmas time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 switched	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 switched	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 switched	advmod
4	switched	switch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 switched	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 time	compound
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 switched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch on	present · passive		They			time		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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