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Test 3 · ★ · Diggers, cranes and cement mixers

In a cartoon, a crane lifts a whole house and does not tip, with nothing on its short arm. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crane · What happens: lift, not tip, be · To what, where: whole house, cartoon, nothing, short arm

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 28 «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» 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: In a cartoon, a crane lifts a whole house and does not tip, with nothing on its short arm.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifts	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crane	det
6	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifts	nsubj
7	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 house	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 house	amod
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifts	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tip	cc
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tip	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tip	advmod
14	tip	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lifts	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nothing	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 nothing	case
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 tip	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 arm	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 arm	nmod:poss
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 arm	amod
21	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nothing	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lifts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	present	a crane	a whole house		a cartoon			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in cartoon=Destination
2	not tip	present · do-support	a crane not said here	nothing		crane's short arm			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme on arm=Destination

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 wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Without counterweights on the short arm, the crane would tip over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Without	without	ADP	_	2 counterweights	case
2	counterweights	counterweight	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tip	obl
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 arm	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 arm	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arm	amod
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counterweights	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 counterweights	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crane	det
9	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tip	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tip	aux
11	tip	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	over	over	ADV	_	11 tip	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip over	would	the crane					without counterweights on the short arm; over property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nothing, cranes are always strong enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cranes	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 strong	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing cranes					always, enough, strong property	tree rules

Option 3

The house would make the crane taller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crane	det
6	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the house	the crane				tall property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crane=Product

Option 4

Cranes never lift anything heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lift	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 lift	advmod
3	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 lift	obj
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 anything	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lift	present	Cranes	anything					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

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