Test 8 · Escalators and lifts
A tower's top floor is 400 metres up, and its lift travels 20 metres a second. How long is the ride?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: top floor, lift, floor · What happens: be, travel, lift · To what, where: 20 metres, ride
This is test 8 of lesson 26 «Escalators and lifts» 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: A tower's top floor is 400 metres up, and its lift travels 20 metres a second.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tower | det |
| 2 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floor | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 tower | case |
| 4 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 floor | amod |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 up | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 up | cop |
| 7 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 metres | nummod |
| 8 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 up | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 travels | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 travels | cc |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lift | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 travels | nsubj |
| 14 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 up | advcl |
| 15 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 metres | nummod |
| 16 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 travels | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 second | det |
| 18 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 travels | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 up | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a tower's top floor | 400 metres obl:unmarked; up property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | travel | present | floor's lift | 20 metres | second | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | lift | floor | nom lift «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: How long is the ride?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 ride | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ride | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ride | det |
| 5 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ride | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the ride | long property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
20 seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 seconds | nummod |
| 2 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
8 seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 seconds | nummod |
| 2 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
4 seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 seconds | nummod |
| 2 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
200 seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 seconds | nummod |
| 2 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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