Test 9 · ★★ · Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes

Which of these is a structure built mostly from triangles?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, build · To what, where: structure, triangles

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 structure	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 structure	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 structure	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 structure	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 structure	det
6	structure	structure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 structure	acl
8	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	7 built	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 triangles	case
10	triangles	triangle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 built	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 structure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						of a structure	tree rules
2	build	participle		a structure not said here		triangles		mostly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from triangle=Material

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

A round snow igloo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 igloo	det
2	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 igloo	amod
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 igloo	compound
4	igloo	igloo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A tall brick wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wall	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wall	amod
3	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wall	compound
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Eiffel Tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tower	det
2	Eiffel	Eiffel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Tower	compound
3	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A stone pyramid in Egypt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pyramid	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pyramid	compound
3	pyramid	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Egypt	case
5	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pyramid	nmod

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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