Test 8 · ★★ · Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barge…
A painting shows a narrowboat cabin covered in roses and castles. Who lived there?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: painting · What happens: show, cover, live · To what, where: narrowboat cabin
This is test 8 · ★★ 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 painting shows a narrowboat cabin covered in roses and castles.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 painting | det |
| 2 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cabin | det |
| 5 | narrowboat | narrowboat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cabin | compound |
| 6 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cabin | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 roses | case |
| 9 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 covered | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 castles | cc |
| 11 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 roses | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a painting | a narrowboat cabin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cabin=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | a narrowboat cabin not said here | in roses and castles | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in rose=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: Who lived there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 lived | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The lock-keeper's cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 keeper | det |
| 2 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeper | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 lock | punct |
| 4 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 keeper | case |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Often a whole boat family
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 5 family | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boat | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boat | amod |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 family | compound |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The horse
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 | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nobody, it was only for coal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 coal | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nobody | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 coal | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 coal | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 coal | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 coal | case |
| 7 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Nobody | for coal | 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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