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Test 10 · ★★ · Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barge…

A friend says the old mill wheel turned because a horse walked round and round it. What really turned a water-mill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, old mill wheel, horse · What happens: say, turn, walk, round · To what, where: horse, water mill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 41 «Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat» 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

Sentence 1: A friend says the old mill wheel turned because a horse walked round and round it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wheel	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wheel	amod
6	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wheel	compound
7	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	nsubj
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 walked	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walked	nsubj
12	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	ccomp
13	round	round	ADV	_	12 walked	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 round	cc
15	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 walked	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 round	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	turn	past	the old mill wheel						tree rules
3	walk	past	a horse					round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	round	infinitive	a horse not said here	horse					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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.

Sentence 2: What really turned a water-mill?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 turned	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mill	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mill	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 water	punct
7	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		a water mill					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme mill=Result

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A steam engine under it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 engine	det
2	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engine	compound
3	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 engine	nmod

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

Option 2

A horse walking round it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 horse	acl
4	round	round	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund	a horse not said here					round horse	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Moving water pushing the wheel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushing	nsubj
3	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wheel	det
5	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	push	gerund	Moving water	the wheel					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme

Option 4

Wind in its four sails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 sails	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sails	nmod:poss
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sails	nummod
5	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wind	nmod

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

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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