Test 11 · ★★ · Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barge…
★★★ A lock is 20 metres long and 2 metres wide, and the water rises 3 metres to lift a boat. How many cubic metres of water flow in?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, lock, water · What happens: ★, be, rise, lift · To what, where: 2 metres, 3 metres, boat
This is test 11 · ★★ 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 lock is 20 metres long and 2 metres wide, and the water rises 3 metres to lift a boat.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lock | det |
| 5 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 long | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 long | cop |
| 7 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 metres | nummod |
| 8 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 long | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ★ | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wide | cc |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 metres | nummod |
| 12 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 long | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rises | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rises | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rises | nsubj |
| 18 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ★ | conj |
| 19 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 metres | nummod |
| 20 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rises | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 lift | mark |
| 22 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 rises | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 boat | det |
| 24 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lift | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a lock | 20 metres obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a lock not said here | 2 metres | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rise | present | the water | 3 metres | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location metre=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lift | to-infinitive | the water not said here | a boat | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
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: How many cubic metres of water flow in?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 metres | amod |
| 3 | cubic | cubic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 metres | amod |
| 4 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 flow | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flow | compound |
| 7 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 metres | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 flow | case |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 metres | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
25
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
120
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 120 | 120 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
60
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1200
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1200 | 1200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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