Test 8 · Mirrors, shadows and colours
A sailor in a submarine wants to see ships on the surface. Which tool helps?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sailor, tool · What happens: want, see, help · To what, where: ships, surface
This is test 8 of lesson 84 «Mirrors, shadows and colours» 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 sailor in a submarine wants to see ships on the surface.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sailor | det |
| 2 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 submarine | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 submarine | det |
| 5 | submarine | submarine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sailor | nmod |
| 6 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wants | xcomp |
| 9 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 surface | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 surface | det |
| 12 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a sailor in a submarine | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | a sailor in a submarine not said here | ships | the surface | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus |
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: Which tool helps?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 tool | det |
| 2 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | which tool | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A periscope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 periscope | det |
| 2 | periscope | periscope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A magnifying glass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 glass | det |
| 2 | magnifying | magnify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 glass | amod |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | magnify | gerund | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
A prism
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prism | det |
| 2 | prism | prism | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A sundial
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sundial | det |
| 2 | sundial | sundial | 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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