Test 10 · ★ · Floating and sinking: the push of water

how does a massive steel ship float when a nail sinks

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: nail · What happens: do, float, sink · To what, where: massive steel ship

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 83 «Floating and sinking: the push of water» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 float	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ship	det
4	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ship	amod
5	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ship	compound
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
7	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 sinks	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nail	det
10	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sinks	nsubj
11	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 float	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present		a massive steel ship	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Eventuality
2	float	present			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sink	present	a nail		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Air from the sea holds the ship up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holds	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 sea	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Air	nmod
5	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holds	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 holds	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	present	Air from the sea	the ship					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ship=Theme

Option 2

Steel floats once it is very big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	7 big	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 big	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 big	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 floats	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	Steel						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Steel					big property	tree rules

Option 3

The engines push it up out of the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 engines	det
2	engines	engine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 push	nsubj
3	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 push	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 push	compound:prt
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 water	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push up	present	the engines	it		the water			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme out water=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its hollow shape pushes aside lots of water, giving enough upthrust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 shape	nmod:poss
2	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shape	amod
3	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushes	nsubj
4	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	aside	aside	ADV	_	4 pushes	advmod
6	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pushes	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lots	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 giving	punct
10	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 pushes	advcl
11	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 upthrust	amod
12	upthrust	upthrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	Its hollow shape	lots of water				aside property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
2	give	gerund	Its hollow shape not said here	enough upthrust					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upthrust=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/83-floating-and-sinking/t10/