Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★

★★★ «the washer spun like a billion times, it literally walked across the floor» What really made it walk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, washer · What happens: spin, walk, make · To what, where: washer, floor

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 walked	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 washer	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 washer	det
6	washer	washer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	appos
7	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 washer	acl
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 times	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 times	det
10	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 times	nummod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spun	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 walked	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 walked	nsubj
14	literally	literally	ADV	_	15 walked	advmod
15	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	across	across	ADP	_	18 floor	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 floor	det
18	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walked	obl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 walked	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 made	obl
21	really	really	ADV	_	22 made	advmod
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 walked	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	obj
24	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 made	xcomp
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 walked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin in a quote	participle		the washer not said here		time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	walk in a quote	past	★		the floor		literally property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory
3	make	past	★ not said here	washer				tree rules
4	walk	infinitive	washer not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It really spun a billion times in one wash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spun	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 spun	advmod
3	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 billion	det
5	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spun	obl:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wash	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 wash	nummod
9	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spun	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	past	It			one wash	time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in wash=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The clothes bunched on one side, so the drum wobbled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clothes	det
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 wobbled	nsubj
3	bunched	bunch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 clothes	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 side	nummod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bunched	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wobbled	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 wobbled	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 drum	det
10	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wobbled	nsubj
11	wobbled	wobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bunch	participle		the clothes not said here		one side			tree rules
2	wobble	past	the clothes						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Its concrete blocks fell out of the back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 concrete	nmod:poss
2	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blocks	nsubj
3	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blocks	ccomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 back	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 back	det
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	present	Its concrete						vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
2	fall	past	Its concrete not said here			the back			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out back=Location

Option 4

The water froze inside it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 froze	nsubj
3	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 froze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past	the water			it			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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