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description: «ugh, why do all the containers look the same, so boring» What is the smart answer? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 24 «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Ships, ports and submarines

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«ugh, why do all the containers look the same, so boring» What is the smart answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** containers · **What happens:** look, be · **To what, where:** same, smart answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 24 «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t5:1
# text = «ugh, why do all the containers look the same, so boring» What is the smart answer?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	containers	container	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | present · do-support | all containers | the same |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | present |  | the smart answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Because nobody had paint of other colours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t5:o1:1
# text = Because nobody had paint of other colours
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | nobody | paint of other colours |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Because they all belong to one shop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t5:o2:1
# text = Because they all belong to one shop
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | they |  |  |  |  | to one shop | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So that they all float together in a neat line when they get dropped in the sea

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t5:o3:1
# text = So that they all float together in a neat line when they get dropped in the sea
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | present | they |  |  | a neat line |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory |
| 2 | **drop** | present · passive |  | they |  | the sea |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in sea=Destination |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So any crane, ship, train or lorry in the world can handle them

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t5:o4:1
# text = So any crane, ship, train or lorry in the world can handle them
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lorry	lorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **handle** | can | any crane in the world and ship and train or lorry | train |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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**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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