Test 6 · Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature
A full 2-litre bottle of water is put on scales. About what will they show, not counting the bottle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scales · What happens: put, show, not count · To what, where: full litre bottle, scales, bottle
This is test 6 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: A full 2-litre bottle of water is put on scales.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bottle | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bottle | amod |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 litre | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 2 | punct |
| 5 | litre | litre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bottle | compound |
| 6 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bottle | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux:pass |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 scales | case |
| 12 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present · passive | a full litre bottle of water | scales | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on scale=Destination |
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: About what will they show, not counting the bottle?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | SCONJ | _ | 5 show | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 show | obj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 show | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 show | nsubj |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 counting | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 counting | advmod |
| 8 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 show | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bottle | det |
| 10 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 counting | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | future | scales = scale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | not count | gerund | scales = scale not said here | the bottle | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
200 kilograms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 kilograms | nummod |
| 2 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
20 kilograms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 kilograms | nummod |
| 2 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
2 kilograms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 kilograms | nummod |
| 2 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
2 grams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 grams | nummod |
| 2 | grams | gram | 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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