Test 5 · Maps, plans and the compass

Which is true about a compass?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 5 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 compass	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 compass	det
6	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a compass; true 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

Its needle only works during the daytime

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 needle	nmod:poss
2	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 works	advmod
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	during	during	ADP	_	7 daytime	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 daytime	det
7	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Its needle				during the daytime		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Its needle points towards the Sun at noon

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 needle	nmod:poss
2	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 points	nsubj
3	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 Sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 points	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 noon	case
8	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 points	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	present	Its needle				noon	towards the Sun	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards sun=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its needle points north almost anywhere on Earth

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 needle	nmod:poss
2	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 points	nsubj
3	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	north	north	ADV	_	3 points	advmod
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 anywhere	advmod
6	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 points	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 points	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	present	Its needle			Earth		anywhere, north property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Its needle points towards the nearest sea

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 needle	nmod:poss
2	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 points	nsubj
3	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
6	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 sea	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 points	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	present	Its needle					towards the nearest sea	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards sea=Recipient

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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