Test 13 · Maps, plans and the compass

Lily says brown on a map means desert. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lily, map · What happens: say, mean · To what, where: desert · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 of lesson 41 «Maps, plans and the compass» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 map	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 map	det
6	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
8	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	7 means	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Lily					brown property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	a map	desert					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Topic

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

No, brown is used for the cities, roads and big towns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	brown	brown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux:pass
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 cities	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cities	det
8	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 used	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 roads	punct
10	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cities	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 towns	cc
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 towns	amod
13	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cities	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		brown				for the cities and roads and big towns	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for city=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, on a physical map brown shows hills and mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 shows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shows	punct
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 shows	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 brown	det
5	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brown	amod
6	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brown	compound
7	brown	brown	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shows	nsubj
8	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shows	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mountains	cc
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hills	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a physical map brown	hills and mountains					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hill=Recipient

Option 3

Yes, brown always means sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	brown	brown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 means	advmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj

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

Option 4

Yes, and green means grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 means	cc
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj

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

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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