Test 1 · ★★★ · Bridges and skyscrapers

«lol bridges don't move, they're solid» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bridges · What happens: not move, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Bridges and skyscrapers» 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	_	6 move	punct
2	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 move	discourse
3	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 move	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 move	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 move	advmod
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 true	csubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 solid	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 solid	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 solid	cop
10	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 move	conj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 move	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 true	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not move in a quote	present · do-support	bridges		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	bridges = bridge	solid property	tree rules
3	is	present		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

Only wooden bridges move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 bridges	advmod
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bridges	amod
3	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 move	nsubj
4	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	wooden bridges						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

True, steel never changes size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 steel	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changes	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 changes	advmod
5	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present	True steel	size					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient

Option 3

They move only when a ship hits them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 move	advmod
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 hits	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ship	det
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hits	nsubj
7	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 move	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	They						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	hit	present	a ship	them = they					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bridges grow and shrink with heat and cold, by tens of centimetres on long ones

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shrink	cc
4	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	conj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 heat	case
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shrink	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cold	cc
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heat	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tens	punct
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 tens	case
11	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 centimetres	case
13	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tens	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 ones	case
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ones	amod
16	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Bridges					on long ones	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Location
2	shrink	present	Bridges not said here					with heat	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with heat=Instrument

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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