Test 7 · ★★★ · Bridges and skyscrapers

Why does the Taipei 101 golden ball help in strong wind?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, help · To what, where: Taipei golden ball, strong wind

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 help	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ball	det
4	Taipei	Taipei	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ball	compound
5	101	101	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Taipei	flat
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ball	amod
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
8	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wind	case
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wind	amod
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the Taipei golden ball					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Eventuality
2	help	present				strong wind			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

It swings against the building's sway and calms it

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 swings	nsubj
2	swings	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	against	against	ADP	_	7 sway	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 building	det
5	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sway	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 building	case
7	sway	sway	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swings	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 calms	cc
9	calms	calm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 swings	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 calms	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	present	It			the building's sway			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against sway=Trajectory
2	calm	present		sway					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It makes the building lighter at the top, so the wind can't push it

The tree, 15 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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 building	det
4	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lighter	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 push	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	15 push	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 push	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 push	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 push	advmod
15	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 push	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the building				light property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material building=Product
2	not push	can	the wind	building					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

It catches the wind like a sail

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 catches	nsubj
2	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catches	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 sail	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sail	det
7	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	It	the wind				like a sail	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme

Option 4

It is only there as a gold store

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 there	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 store	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 store	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 store	compound
8	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					as a gold store; there property	tree rules

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