Test 3 · ★★ · Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barge…
In the book Toad offers to steer the barge instead of washing. What steers a barge?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: offer, steer, wash · To what, where: book, barge
This is test 3 · ★★ 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: In the book Toad offers to steer the barge instead of washing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 book | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offers | obl |
| 4 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 offers | nsubj |
| 5 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 steer | mark |
| 7 | steer | steer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 offers | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 barge | det |
| 9 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steer | obj |
| 10 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 washing | mark |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 instead | fixed |
| 12 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 steer | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 offers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present | Toad | the book | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | steer not said to happen | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | the barge | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wash | gerund | Toad not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: 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.
Sentence 2: What steers a barge?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 steers | nsubj |
| 2 | steers | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 barge | det |
| 4 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 steers | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 steers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steer | present | a barge | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barge=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The horse's reins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reins | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 horse | case |
| 4 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A steering wheel on the roof
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wheel | det |
| 2 | steering | steering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wheel | compound |
| 3 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 roof | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roof | det |
| 6 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wheel | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The tiller at the back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tiller | det |
| 2 | tiller | tiller | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 back | det |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tiller | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The oars at the front
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 oars | det |
| 2 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 front | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 front | det |
| 5 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 oars | 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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