Test 6 · The United States and its states
Which state would be best for seeing glaciers, moose and very long summer days?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: state · What happens: be, see · To what, where: glaciers
This is test 6 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 state | det |
| 2 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 best | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 best | cop |
| 5 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 2 state | nmod |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 seeing | mark |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 state | acl |
| 8 | glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seeing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 moose | punct |
| 10 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glaciers | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 days | cc |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 14 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 days | compound |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glaciers | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 state | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | which state not said here | glaciers and moose and long summer days | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glacier=Stimulus |
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 · ← Mova's choice
Florida
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Hawaii
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Alaska
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alaska | Alaska | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Arizona
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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