Test 3 · ★ · Transport: from horses to planes

Which list puts these in the order they appeared?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: list, they · What happens: put, appear · To what, where: these, order

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 list	det
2	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	nsubj
3	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 puts	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 order	det
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 appeared	nsubj
9	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 order	acl:relcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 puts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present	which list	these		the order			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme in order=Destination
2	appear	past	they	the order not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location order=Theme

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

Car, sailing ship, aeroplane, steam train

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ship	punct
3	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 ship	amod
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Car	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 aeroplane	punct
6	aeroplane	aeroplane	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Car	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 train	punct
8	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 train	compound
9	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Car	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund							vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Aeroplane, car, steam train, sailing ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aeroplane	aeroplane	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 car	punct
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aeroplane	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 train	punct
5	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 train	compound
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aeroplane	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sailing	punct
8	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Aeroplane	conj
9	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sailing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund		ship					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme ship=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sailing ship, steam train, car, aeroplane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ship	amod
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 train	punct
4	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 train	compound
5	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ship	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 car	punct
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ship	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 aeroplane	punct
9	aeroplane	aeroplane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ship	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund							vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Steam train, aeroplane, sailing ship, car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Steam	steam	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 train	amod
2	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 aeroplane	punct
4	aeroplane	aeroplane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 train	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ship	punct
6	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 ship	amod
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 train	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 car	punct
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 train	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund							vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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