Test 6 · ★★ · Tunnels and what lies under the street

«a tunnel under a river in 1843? rubbish, they had no machines» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tunnel · What happens: have, be · To what, where: machines · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	_	3 tunnel	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tunnel	det
3	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tunnel	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1843	case
8	1843	1843	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 river	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 rubbish	punct
10	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tunnel	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tunnel	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 machines	det
15	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 had	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	tunnel	no machines				« a tunnel under a river in 1843 and rubbish	tree rules
2	is	present						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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's true: the first Thames tunnel opened in 1843, dug by hand

The tree, 13 words

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	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 opened	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tunnel	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 tunnel	amod
7	Thames	Thames	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tunnel	compound
8	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	nsubj
9	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1843	case
11	1843	1843	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 opened	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dug	punct
13	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 true	parataxis
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 hand	case
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dug	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		true property	tree rules
2	open	past	the first Thames tunnel	1843		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1843=Location
3	dig	participle			by hand	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by hand=Location

Option 2

Right, it was dug in 1943

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 dug	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dug	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dug	aux:pass
5	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1943	case
7	1943	1943	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 dug	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past · passive		it		1943			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in 1943=Location

Option 3

Right, tunnels under rivers are impossible, the water would always pour in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	7 impossible	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 impossible	nsubj
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 rivers	case
5	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tunnels	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 impossible	cop
7	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pour	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pour	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 pour	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 pour	advmod
13	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 impossible	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	13 pour	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	tunnels under rivers					impossible property	tree rules
2	pour in	would	the water					always property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 4

It was dug by robots from France

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	3 dug	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dug	aux:pass
3	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 robots	case
5	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dug	obl:agent
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 France	case
7	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dug	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past · passive	robots	It		France			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent subject=Result from france=Material

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