Test 11 · ★★ · Tunnels and what lies under the street
A tunnel's lining has 20 rings, and each ring is made of 6 curved pieces. How many pieces?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lining · What happens: have, make, curve · To what, where: 20 rings, ring
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Tunnels and what lies under the street» 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 tunnel's lining has 20 rings, and each ring is made of 6 curved pieces.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tunnel | det |
| 2 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lining | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 tunnel | case |
| 4 | lining | lining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 rings | nummod |
| 7 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 ring | det |
| 11 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux:pass |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 has | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 pieces | case |
| 15 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 pieces | nummod |
| 16 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 pieces | amod |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a tunnel's lining | 20 rings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | present · passive | each ring | of 6 curved pieces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
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 many pieces?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pieces | amod |
| 3 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 pieces | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
26
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
60
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
120
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 120 | 120 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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