Test 3 · The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator
Max stands on the beach and watches a sailing ship go away. What does he see last?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Max, sailing ship · What happens: stand, watch, go away, see · To what, where: beach, sailing ship
This is test 3 of lesson 7 «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» 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: Max stands on the beach and watches a sailing ship go away.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stands | nsubj |
| 2 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 beach | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beach | det |
| 5 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stands | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 watches | cc |
| 7 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stands | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 9 | sailing | sailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ship | compound |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watches | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 watches | xcomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | Max | the beach | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on beach=Location | ||||
| 2 | watch | present | Max not said here | a sailing ship | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go away | infinitive | a sailing ship not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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: What does he see last?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 see | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 see | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | Max | last property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The bottom of the ship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bottom | det |
| 2 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ship | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bottom | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
All of it vanishes at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 vanishes | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | vanishes | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 vanishes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | present | All | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
The middle of the ship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 middle | det |
| 2 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ship | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 middle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The top of the mast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 top | det |
| 2 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mast | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mast | det |
| 5 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 top | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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