Test 9 · ★★ · Map reading puzzles
On a map the forest is 4 centimetres south of the river and the scale is 1 centimetre = 500 metres. What does a walker crossing from the forest to the river do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: forest, scale, walker crossing · What happens: be, do · To what, where: 4 centimetres, 1 centimetre
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: On a map the forest is 4 centimetres south of the river and the scale is 1 centimetre = 500 metres.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 map | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 map | det |
| 3 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 centimetres | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 centimetres | cop |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 centimetres | nummod |
| 8 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 map | nmod |
| 9 | south | south | ADV | _ | 12 river | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 centimetres | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 centimetre | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 scale | det |
| 15 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 centimetre | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 centimetre | cop |
| 17 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 centimetre | nummod |
| 18 | centimetre | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 river | conj |
| 19 | = | = | SYM | _ | 20 500 | case |
| 20 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 metres | nummod |
| 21 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 centimetre | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 map | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the forest | 4 centimetres | of the river and 1 centimetre | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the scale | 1 centimetre | 500 metres nmod | 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: What does a walker crossing from the forest to the river do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 do | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crossing | det |
| 4 | walker | walker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossing | compound |
| 5 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | nsubj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossing | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forest | nmod |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · do-support | a walker crossing from the forest to the river | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Walks 2 kilometres north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Walks | obj |
| 4 | north | north | ADV | _ | 1 Walks | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | 2 kilometres | north property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kilometre=Trajectory |
Option 2
Walks 2 kilometres south
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Walks | obj |
| 4 | south | south | ADV | _ | 1 Walks | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | 2 kilometres | south property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kilometre=Trajectory |
Option 3
Walks 500 metres north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walks | walk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 metres | nsubj |
| 2 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 metres | nummod |
| 3 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | north | north | ADV | _ | 3 metres | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Walks 4 kilometres north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walks | walk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Walks | conj |
| 4 | north | north | ADV | _ | 1 Walks | advmod |
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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