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Test 3 · ★ · Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and p…

About Harrison's sea clock: "A clock that saves ships? Mint." ("Mint" means great.) How did a clock save ships?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: clock, Mint · What happens: save, mean · To what, where: ships

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 123 «Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones» of the world 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: About Harrison's sea clock: "A clock that saves ships?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADP	_	5 clock	case
2	Harrison	Harrison	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 clock	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Harrison	case
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clock	compound
5	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saves	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 clock	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 clock	punct
8	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 clock	det
9	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saves	nsubj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 saves	nsubj
11	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saves	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 saves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save in a quote	present	a clock	ships				about Harrison's sea clock	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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: Mint."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Mint	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Mint	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: ("Mint" means great.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Mint	punct
3	Mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Mint	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Mint					great property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 4: How did a clock save ships?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 save	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 save	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 clock	det
4	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 save	nsubj
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 save	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past · do-support	a clock	ships					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It let sailors work out how far east or west they were

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	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 let	obj
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 work	compound:prt
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 east	advmod
8	east	east	ADV	_	4 work	advmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 west	cc
10	west	west	ADV	_	8 east	conj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 were	nsubj
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	It	sailors					tree rules
2	work out	infinitive	sailors not said here					east property	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	sailors = sailor						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It steered the ship all by itself

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	2 steered	nsubj
2	steered	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ship	det
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steered	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	2 steered	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 steered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steer	past	It	the ship				by ship; all property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ship=Theme by itself=Destination

Option 3

It warned sailors of storms coming by ringing a loud bell

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	2 warned	nsubj
2	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 warned	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 storms	case
5	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sailors	nmod
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 storms	acl
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 ringing	mark
8	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 warned	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bell	det
10	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bell	amod
11	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ringing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	It	sailors of storms					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sailor=Recipient
2	come	gerund	storms not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ring	gerund		a loud bell					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme

Option 4

It kept the sailors awake at night

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	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sailors	det
4	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	obj
5	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	It	the sailors			night	awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sailor=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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