Test 2 · ★ · Transport: from horses to planes
A doctor must get a small box of medicine to another continent by tomorrow. Which transport is best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctor, transport · What happens: get, be · To what, where: small box
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 99 «Transport: from horses to planes» 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 doctor must get a small box of medicine to another continent by tomorrow.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 box | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 box | amod |
| 7 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 medicine | case |
| 9 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 box | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 continent | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 continent | det |
| 12 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 tomorrow | case |
| 14 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | must | a doctor | a small box of medicine | tomorrow | to another continent | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus |
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: Which transport is best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 transport | det |
| 2 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 best | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 best | cop |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which transport | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A steam train
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 train | det |
| 2 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 train | compound |
| 3 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A sailing ship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 2 | sailing | sailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ship | compound |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A plane
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 plane | det |
| 2 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A canal boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 2 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boat | compound |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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