Test 8 · ★ · Clouds, rain, snow and hail
A pupil puts a straight-sided jar outside and finds 12 millimetres of water in it after one day. What has he made?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pupil · What happens: put, find, make · To what, where: sided jar, 12 millimetres
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 67 «Clouds, rain, snow and hail» 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 pupil puts a straight-sided jar outside and finds 12 millimetres of water in it after one day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pupil | det |
| 2 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 puts | nsubj |
| 3 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 jar | det |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sided | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 straight | punct |
| 7 | sided | sided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 jar | amod |
| 8 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 puts | obj |
| 9 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 3 puts | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 finds | cc |
| 11 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 puts | conj |
| 12 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 millimetres | nummod |
| 13 | millimetres | millimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 finds | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 millimetres | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 finds | obl |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 day | nummod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finds | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 puts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | a pupil | a sided jar | outside property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jar=Goal | |||
| 2 | find | present | a pupil not said here | 12 millimetres of water | day | in pupil | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent millimetre=Topic |
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 has he made?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A simple thermometer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thermometer | det |
| 2 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thermometer | amod |
| 3 | thermometer | thermometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A simple barometer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 barometer | det |
| 2 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 barometer | amod |
| 3 | barometer | barometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A simple rain gauge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gauge | det |
| 2 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gauge | amod |
| 3 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gauge | compound |
| 4 | gauge | gauge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A simple wind vane
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 vane | det |
| 2 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 vane | amod |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vane | compound |
| 4 | vane | vane | 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.
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