Test 2 · Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 2 of lesson 90 «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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	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

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

A kilometre is longer than a thousand centimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kilometre	det
2	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 longer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 longer	cop
4	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 centimetres	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thousand	det
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 centimetres	nummod
8	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 longer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a kilometre					than thousand centimetres; long property	tree rules

Option 2

A minute is 100 seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 minute	det
2	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seconds	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seconds	cop
4	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 seconds	nummod
5	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a minute	100 seconds					tree rules

Option 3

Water freezes at 100 degrees Celsius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 freezes	nsubj
2	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 degrees	case
4	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 degrees	nummod
5	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 freezes	obl
6	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 degrees	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	Water			100 degrees Celsius			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

A kilogram is less than a gram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kilogram	det
2	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 less	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 less	cop
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 gram	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gram	det
7	gram	gram	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 less	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a kilogram					than a gram; less property	tree rules

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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