Test 7 · ★★ · Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes

Why would glass be a poor material for the cables of a suspension bridge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: glass · What happens: be, cable · To what, where: poor material, suspension bridge

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 material	aux
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 material	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 material	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 material	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 material	amod
7	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 cables	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cables	det
10	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 material	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 bridge	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bridge	det
13	suspension	suspension	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bridge	compound
14	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cables	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	glass	a poor material				for the cables of a suspension bridge	tree rules
2	cable			a suspension bridge					nom cable «communication transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Glass is weak when it is stretched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weak	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 weak	cop
3	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 stretched	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stretched	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stretched	aux:pass
7	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 weak	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Glass					weak property	tree rules
2	stretch	present · passive		Glass					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Glass is far too heavy to lift up there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 heavy	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lift	mark
7	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heavy	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 lift	compound:prt
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lift	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Glass					far, heavy property	tree rules
2	lift up	to-infinitive	Glass not said here			there			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Glass rusts quickly in rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rusts	nsubj
2	rusts	rust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 rusts	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 rain	case
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rusts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rust	present	Glass			rain		quickly property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Glass is weak when it is squashed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weak	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 weak	cop
3	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 squashed	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 squashed	nsubj:pass
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	3 weak	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Glass					weak property	tree rules
2	squash	present · passive		Glass					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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