Test 7 · ★★ · Map reading puzzles
A boat floats down a river without rowing, and the river runs from the hills to the sea. Where will the boat drift?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boat, river · What happens: float down, row, run · To what, where: river, hills
This is test 7 · ★★ 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: A boat floats down a river without rowing, and the river runs from the hills to the sea.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floats | nsubj |
| 3 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 floats | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floats | obj |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 rowing | mark |
| 8 | rowing | row | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 floats | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 runs | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 runs | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 runs | nsubj |
| 13 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 floats | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 hills | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hills | det |
| 16 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 runs | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 runs | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 floats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float down | present | a boat | a river | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location river=Theme | ||||
| 2 | row | gerund | a boat not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run | present | the river | the hills | to the sea result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result |
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 will the boat drift?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 drift | det |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drift | compound |
| 5 | drift | drift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Towards the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 hills | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hills | det |
| 3 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
First to the sea, then back to the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 sea | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 sea | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sea | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 back | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 back | advmod |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 sea | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 hills | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hills | det |
| 10 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 back | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Towards the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nowhere, it stays still
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 stays | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nowhere | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stays | nsubj |
| 4 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 stays | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | it | still | nowhere property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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