Test 2 · ★★ · Map reading puzzles
Two towns are 12 centimetres apart on a map where 1 centimetre is 10 kilometres. A bus drives 60 kilometres an hour. How long is the trip in a straight line?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Two towns, 1 centimetre, bus · What happens: be, drive · To what, where: map, 10 kilometres, 60 kilometres, trip, straight line
This is test 2 · ★★ 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: Two towns are 12 centimetres apart on a map where 1 centimetre is 10 kilometres.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 towns | nummod |
| 2 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 apart | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 apart | cop |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 centimetres | nummod |
| 5 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 apart | obl |
| 6 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 map | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 map | det |
| 9 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 apart | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 kilometres | advmod |
| 11 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 centimetre | nummod |
| 12 | centimetre | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kilometres | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 kilometres | cop |
| 14 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 kilometres | nummod |
| 15 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 map | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 apart | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Two towns | a map | 12 centimetres obl; apart property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | 1 centimetre | 10 kilometres | 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.
Sentence 2: A bus drives 60 kilometres an hour.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bus | det |
| 2 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drives | nsubj |
| 3 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 kilometres | nummod |
| 5 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drives | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kilometres | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | present | a bus | 60 kilometres a hour | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: How long is the trip in a straight line?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 trip | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trip | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trip | det |
| 5 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 line | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 line | det |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 line | amod |
| 9 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trip | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 trip | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the trip | a straight line | long property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
2 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
12 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
6 hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1 hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hour | nummod |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/49-map-puzzles/t2/