Test 6 · ★★ · Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes
Engineers want a long, light bridge across a wide river where few supports can stand. Which kind is best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Engineers, few supports, kind · What happens: want, stand, be · To what, where: long light bridge, wide river
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Engineers want a long, light bridge across a wide river where few supports can stand.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Engineers | engineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bridge | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bridge | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 6 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bridge | amod |
| 7 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 want | obj |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 10 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 river | amod |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 want | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 stand | advmod |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 supports | amod |
| 14 | supports | support | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stand | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 stand | aux |
| 16 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 river | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Engineers | a long light bridge | a wide river | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bridge=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | can | few supports | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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.
Sentence 2: Which kind is best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 best | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 best | cop |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which kind | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A suspension bridge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bridge | det |
| 2 | suspension | suspension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bridge | compound |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A beam bridge on many posts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bridge | det |
| 2 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bridge | compound |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 posts | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 posts | amod |
| 6 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bridge | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A floating bridge of planks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bridge | det |
| 2 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 bridge | amod |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 planks | case |
| 5 | planks | plank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bridge | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
A low stone arch bridge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bridge | det |
| 2 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bridge | amod |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arch | compound |
| 4 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bridge | compound |
| 5 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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