Test 5 · ★★ · Tunnels and what lies under the street

«wow, London's sewers are tiny pipes, right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sewers, tiny pipes · What happens: be · To what, where: tiny pipes

This is test 5 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 pipes	punct
2	wow	wow	INTJ	_	9 pipes	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wow	punct
4	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sewers	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 London	case
6	sewers	sewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pipes	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pipes	cop
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pipes	amod
9	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 right	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pipes	punct
11	right	right	ADV	_	15 right	advmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	London's sewers	tiny pipes					tree rules
2	is	present	tiny pipes					right property	tree rules

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

Yes, all sewers are smaller than a drinking straw, so only water fits

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 smaller	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sewers	det
4	sewers	sewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smaller	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 smaller	cop
6	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 straw	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 straw	det
9	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 straw	compound
10	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smaller	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fits	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 fits	advmod
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 water	advmod
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fits	compound
15	fits	fit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smaller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all sewers					than a drinking straw; water fits obl; small property	tree rules

Option 2

London has no sewers at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sewers	det
4	sewers	sewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sewers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	London	no sewers		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sewer=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sewers were built only last year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sewers	sewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 built	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 built	aux:pass
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 year	advmod
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 year	amod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		Sewers			year		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Many are big tunnels, built in the 1860s by Joseph Bazalgette

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tunnels	amod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tunnels	cop
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tunnels	amod
4	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 built	punct
6	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tunnels	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 1860s	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 1860s	det
9	1860s	1860	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	6 built	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 Joseph	case
11	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 built	obl:agent
12	Bazalgette	Bazalgette	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Joseph	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Many big tunnels					tree rules
2	build	participle		Many big tunnels not said here				in the 1860s	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1860=Attribute

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