Test 8 · ★★ · Tunnels and what lies under the street

Which is true about the Channel Tunnel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 Tunnel	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tunnel	det
6	Channel	Channel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Tunnel	compound
7	Tunnel	Tunnel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about the Channel Tunnel; true 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 opened in 1994 and is about 50 km long

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	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 1994	case
4	1994	1994	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 opened	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 long	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 long	cop
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 50	advmod
8	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 km	nummod
9	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 long	obl:unmarked
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 opened	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	It			1994			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1994=Location
2	is	present						50 km obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules

Option 2

It is a bridge, not a tunnel

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	4 bridge	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bridge	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tunnel	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 tunnel	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tunnel	det
8	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bridge	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a bridge					tree rules

Option 3

Cars drive through it on their own wheels in a road tunnel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drive	nsubj
2	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drive	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 wheels	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wheels	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wheels	amod
8	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drive	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 tunnel	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tunnel	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tunnel	compound
12	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	present	Cars			it		on Cars's own wheels; in a road tunnel	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through it=Trajectory

Option 4

It opened in 1894 and is about 5 km long

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	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 1894	case
4	1894	1894	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 opened	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 long	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 long	cop
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 5	advmod
8	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 km	nummod
9	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 long	obl:unmarked
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 opened	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	It			1894			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1894=Location
2	is	present						5 km obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules

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