Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★

★★★ «bit nippy out, roads are like glass, but the gritter's been» What is the speaker really saying?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: roads, ★ ★ ★, speaker · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» 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	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	X	_	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 What	nsubj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 nippy	punct
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nippy	obl:unmarked
6	nippy	nippy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ★	amod
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 nippy	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 glass	punct
9	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 glass	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 glass	cop
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 glass	case
12	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 been	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 been	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gritter	det
16	gritter	gritter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 been	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 been	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 What	cop
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 been	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 saying	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 speaker	det
23	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 saying	nsubj
24	really	really	ADV	_	25 saying	advmod
25	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 What	acl:relcl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	roads	like glass	tree rules
2	is a	participle	★ ★ ★ and glass		tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present	the speaker	say property	tree rules

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

It's a little cool, so ice is impossible today

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	5 cool	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cool	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cool	obl:unmarked
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 impossible	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 impossible	advmod
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 impossible	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 impossible	cop
10	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cool	parataxis
11	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cool	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				today	a little obl:unmarked; cool property	tree rules
2	is	present	ice					impossible property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The roads are made of glass and the gritter swept them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roads	det
2	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 glass	case
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 swept	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gritter	det
9	gritter	gritter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swept	nsubj
10	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 swept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the roads				of glass	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	sweep	past	the gritter	roads = road					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory

Option 3

It's a warm day and the roads are shiny and clean

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	5 day	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 day	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shiny	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roads	det
8	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shiny	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 shiny	cop
10	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 clean	cc
12	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shiny	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a warm day		tree rules
2	is	present	the roads		shiny property	tree rules
3	be		the roads not said here			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It's freezing and icy; the salt helps, but take real care

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 freezing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 freezing	aux
3	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 icy	cc
5	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 freezing	conj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 helps	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 salt	det
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 helps	nsubj
9	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 freezing	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 take	cc
12	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 helps	ccomp
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 care	amod
14	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	freeze	present · progressive	It		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	help	present	the salt		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	take	present	the salt not said here	real care	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme

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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