Test 3 · The United States and its states
A paper boat is dropped into the Mississippi in Minnesota and floats all the way down. Where does it end up?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boat · What happens: drop, float, end up · To what, where: paper boat, Mississippi, way
This is test 3 of lesson 44 «The United States and its states» 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: A paper boat is dropped into the Mississippi in Minnesota and floats all the way down.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 2 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boat | compound |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dropped | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dropped | aux:pass |
| 5 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 Mississippi | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mississippi | det |
| 8 | Mississippi | Mississippi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dropped | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Minnesota | case |
| 10 | Minnesota | Minnesota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dropped | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 floats | cc |
| 12 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dropped | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 way | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floats | obl |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 floats | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dropped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present · passive | a paper boat | the Mississippi | in Minnesota | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into mississippi=Destination in minnesota=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | float | present | all way | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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.
Sentence 2: Where does it end up?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 end | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 end | nsubj |
| 4 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 end | compound:prt |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end up | present · do-support | boat | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
In the Gulf of Mexico
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Gulf | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Gulf | det |
| 3 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Mexico | case |
| 5 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gulf | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
In the Great Lakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Lakes | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lakes | det |
| 3 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lakes | amod |
| 4 | Lakes | Lake | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In the Pacific Ocean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ocean | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ocean | det |
| 3 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ocean | compound |
| 4 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In Hudson Bay in Canada
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Bay | case |
| 2 | Hudson | Hudson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Bay | compound |
| 3 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Canada | case |
| 5 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Bay | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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