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title: «wow, London's sewers are tiny pipes, right» What is right? — Tunnels and what lies under the street · tree and pragmatics
description: «wow, London's sewers are tiny pipes, right» What is right? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Tunnels and what lies under the street» 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 · ★★ · Tunnels and what lies under the street

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«wow, London's sewers are tiny pipes, right» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sewers, tiny pipes · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** tiny pipes

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Tunnels and what lies under the street» 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/29-tunnels-and-under-the-street/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t5:1
# text = «wow, London's sewers are tiny pipes, right» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	wow	wow	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	sewers	sewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	right	right	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | London's sewers | tiny pipes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | tiny pipes |  |  |  |  | right *property* | 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 {#o1}

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Yes, all sewers are smaller than a drinking straw, so only water fits

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t5:o1:1
# text = Yes, all sewers are smaller than a drinking straw, so only water fits
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	sewers	sewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fits	fit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all sewers |  |  |  |  | than a drinking straw; water fits *obl*; small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
London has no sewers at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t5:o2:1
# text = London has no sewers at all
1	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	sewers	sewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | London | no sewers |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sewer=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sewers were built only last year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t5:o3:1
# text = Sewers were built only last year
1	Sewers	sewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive |  | Sewers |  |  | year |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Many are big tunnels, built in the 1860s by Joseph Bazalgette

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t5:o4:1
# text = Many are big tunnels, built in the 1860s by Joseph Bazalgette
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	1860s	1860	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
12	Bazalgette	Bazalgette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Many big tunnels |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | Many big tunnels *not said here* |  |  |  | in the 1860s | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1860=Attribute |

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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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