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Test 3 · ★★ · Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes

A plank is laid across a stream and a child stands in the middle. Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: lay, stand, be · To what, where: plank, stream, middle

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 86 «Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes» 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 plank is laid across a stream and a child stands in the middle.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plank	det
2	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 laid	aux:pass
4	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 stream	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stream	det
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stands	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stands	nsubj
11	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 laid	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 middle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 middle	det
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stands	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present · passive		a plank		a stream			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	stand	present	a child			the middle			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location

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 is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The whole plank is only stretched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plank	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plank	amod
3	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretched	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stretched	aux:pass
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 stretched	advmod
6	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	present · passive		the whole plank					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2

No forces act inside the plank at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 forces	det
2	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 act	nsubj
3	act	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 plank	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plank	det
6	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 act	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 act	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	present	no forces			the plank		at all	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The whole plank is only squashed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plank	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plank	amod
3	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squashed	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 squashed	aux:pass
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 squashed	advmod
6	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	present · passive		the whole plank					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The top of the plank is squashed and the bottom stretched

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	7 squashed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 plank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plank	det
5	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 top	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 squashed	aux:pass
7	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stretched	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bottom	det
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretched	nsubj:pass
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 squashed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	present · passive		the top of the plank					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	stretch	participle · passive		the bottom					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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