Test 7 · The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator

If you could walk around the equator at about 30 kilometres a day, how long would it take?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: walk, take · To what, where: equator

This is test 7 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 walk	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 walk	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	advcl
5	around	around	ADP	_	7 equator	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 equator	det
7	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 kilometres	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 30	advmod
10	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 kilometres	nummod
11	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walk	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 long	advmod
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 take	advmod
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	expl
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk a condition, not said to happen	could	you			the equator	day	at 30 kilometres	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around equator=Trajectory
2	take	would		equator				long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

About thirty long years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 thirty	advmod
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

About one month of walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 month	nummod
3	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 walking	case
5	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 month	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

More than three years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 three	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

About one week if you hurry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 week	nummod
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurry	obl:unmarked
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 hurry	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hurry	nsubj
6	hurry	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurry	present	you				week		vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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