Test 1 · ★★ · Map reading puzzles
Sam walks north out of his door, turns right at the corner and then turns right again. Which way is he walking now?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam · What happens: walk, turn · To what, where: door, corner, way
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Map reading puzzles» 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: Sam walks north out of his door, turns right at the corner and then turns right again.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 walks | nsubj |
| 2 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | north | north | ADV | _ | 2 walks | advmod |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 door | nmod:poss |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walks | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turns | punct |
| 9 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 walks | parataxis |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 9 turns | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 corner | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 corner | det |
| 13 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turns | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turns | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 turns | advmod |
| 16 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 turns | conj |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 18 again | advmod |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 turns | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | Sam | Sam's door | north property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out door=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | turn | present | the corner | right property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at corner=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | then; again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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: Which way is he walking now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walking | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 walking | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walking | nsubj |
| 5 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 walking | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 walking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present · progressive | Sam | which way | now | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
West
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West | west | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
North
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
South
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South | south | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
East
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East | East | 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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