Test 11 · ★ · Robots at work and at home

Why might a robot dog or rover be sent somewhere instead of a person, like into a broken building?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: send, break · To what, where: robot dog

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 39 «Robots at work and at home» 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	9 sent	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
4	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dog	compound
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	nsubj:pass
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 rover	cc
7	rover	rover	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dog	conj
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sent	aux:pass
9	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 sent	advmod
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	14 person	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 person	det
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 building	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	20 building	case
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 building	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 building	det
19	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 building	amod
20	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	might · passive		a robot dog or rover				instead a person; like a broken building; somewhere property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

The place is too dangerous for people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dangerous	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 dangerous	advmod
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the place					for people; dangerous property	tree rules

Option 2

Robots like dark places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 places	case
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 places	amod
4	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Robots	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

People are not allowed to walk on floors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 walk	mark
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 floors	case
8	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		People					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive	People not said here			floors			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory

Option 4

Robots are cheaper than a sandwich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cheaper	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cheaper	cop
3	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 sandwich	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sandwich	det
6	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheaper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Robots					than a sandwich; cheap property	tree rules

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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