Test 8 · ★ · Diggers, cranes and cement mixers

Why do tall buildings need piles under them?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: tall buildings · What happens: need · To what, where: piles

This is test 8 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 buildings	amod
4	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	piles	pile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 piles	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support	tall buildings	piles				under piles = pile	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pile=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

To stop worms getting in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	obj
4	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 getting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		worms					tree rules
2	get in	gerund							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

To carry their weight down to firm ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 carry	mark
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 weight	nmod:poss
4	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 carry	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ground	amod
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry down	to-infinitive		their weight		firm ground		down property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weight=Theme to ground=Destination

Option 3

To keep water out of the basement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 basement	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 basement	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 basement	det
7	basement	basement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		water		the basement			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme out basement=Location

Option 4

To give the tower crane something firm to stand on while it works

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 something	det
4	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crane	compound
5	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 something	compound
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 give	obj
7	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stand	mark
9	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 something	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 stand	compound:prt
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 works	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 works	nsubj
13	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		something	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
2	stand on	to-infinitive		something not said here	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	work	present	it		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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