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Test 9 · Escalators and lifts

«why does that weird old German lift never stop, is it broken?» What is it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: that, weird old German lift, lift · What happens: do, lift, not stop, break, be · To what, where: lift · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: «why does that weird old German lift never stop, is it broken?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 does	advmod
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 lift	nsubj
5	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lift	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lift	amod
7	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lift	amod
8	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	ccomp
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 stop	advmod
10	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lift	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 broken	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 broken	aux:pass
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 broken	nsubj:pass
14	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 does	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 broken	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lift in a quote		that						tree rules
3	not stop in a quote	present	weird old German lift not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	break in a quote	present · passive		lift					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	lift						tree rules

The options

Option 1

It's a fairground ride, not a lift

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	5 ride	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ride	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ride	det
4	fairground	fairground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ride	compound
5	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lift	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 lift	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lift	det
9	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ride	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a fairground ride and a lift					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A paternoster, an old lift whose open cabins go round in a loop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 paternoster	det
2	paternoster	paternoster	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lift	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lift	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lift	amod
6	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paternoster	appos
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 cabins	nmod:poss
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cabins	amod
9	cabins	cabin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lift	nmod
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 loop	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 loop	det
14	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go round	present	a paternoster			a loop		round property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in loop=Location

Option 3

Yes, it's broken and nobody fixed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 broken	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 broken	nsubj:pass
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fixed	cc
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 fixed	nsubj
8	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fixed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	fix	past	nobody	it					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

A lift that stops only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lift	det
2	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lift	acl:relcl
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 night	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	a lift				night		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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