Test 4 · Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature
Ella measures a pencil starting from the 1 cm mark and reads 13 cm. How long is it really?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ella, pencil · What happens: measure, start, read, be · To what, where: pencil, cm mark, 13 cm, mark
This is test 4 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
Sentence 1: Ella measures a pencil starting from the 1 cm mark and reads 13 cm.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 measures | nsubj |
| 2 | measures | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pencil | det |
| 4 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 measures | obj |
| 5 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 pencil | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 mark | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mark | det |
| 8 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 cm | nummod |
| 9 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mark | compound |
| 10 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 starting | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reads | cc |
| 12 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 measures | conj |
| 13 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 cm | nummod |
| 14 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reads | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 measures | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | present | Ella | a pencil | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pencil=Value | ||||
| 2 | start | gerund | a pencil not said here | the cm mark | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | read | present | Ella not said here | 13 cm | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cm=Topic |
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: How long is it really?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 is | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 is | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | mark | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
12 cm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 cm | nummod |
| 2 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
13 cm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 cm | nummod |
| 2 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1 cm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 cm | nummod |
| 2 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
14 cm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 cm | nummod |
| 2 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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