--- title: ★★★ A lock is 20 metres long and 2 metres wide, and the water rises… — Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ A lock is 20 metres long and 2 metres wide, and the water rises 3 metres to lift a boat. How many cubic metres of water flow in? 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How many cubic metres of water flow in? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, lock, water · **What happens:** ★, be, rise, lift · **To what, where:** 2 metres, 3 metres, boat This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 41 «Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat» 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/41-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ A lock is 20 metres long and 2 metres wide, and the water rises 3 metres to lift a boat. ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:41-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat:t11:1 # text = ★★★ A lock is 20 metres long and 2 metres wide, and the water rises 3 metres to lift a boat. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 lock lock NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **★** | present | ★ | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | a lock | | | | | 20 metres *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | a lock *not said here* | 2 metres | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **rise** | present | the water | 3 metres | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location metre=Theme | | 5 | **lift** | to-infinitive | the water *not said here* | a boat | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=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. *Sentence 2:* How many cubic metres of water flow in? ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:41-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat:t11:2 # text = How many cubic metres of water flow in? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 cubic cubic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 flow flow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 25 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:41-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat:t11:o1:1 # text = 25 1 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 120 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:41-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat:t11:o2:1 # text = 120 1 120 120 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 60 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:41-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat:t11:o3:1 # text = 60 1 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 1200 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:41-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat:t11:o4:1 # text = 1200 1 1200 1200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 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. 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