--- title: Ella measures a pencil starting from the 1 cm mark and reads 13 cm.… — Measuring the world — length, mass, ti… · tree and pragmatics description: Ella measures a pencil starting from the 1 cm mark and reads 13 cm. How long is it really? 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How long is it really? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ella, pencil · **What happens:** measure, start, read, be · **To what, where:** pencil, cm mark, 13 cm, mark This is test 4 of lesson 90 «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/90-measuring-the-world/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Ella measures a pencil starting from the 1 cm mark and reads 13 cm. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:t4:1 # text = Ella measures a pencil starting from the 1 cm mark and reads 13 cm. 1 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 measures measure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 starting start VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 compound _ _ 10 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 13 13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **measure** | present | Ella | a pencil | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pencil=Value | | 2 | **start** | gerund | a pencil *not said here* | | | the cm mark | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **read** | present | Ella *not said here* | 13 cm | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cm=Topic | 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 long is it really? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:t4:2 # text = How long is it really? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | | mark | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 12 cm ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:t4:o1:1 # text = 12 cm 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 13 cm ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:t4:o2:1 # text = 13 cm 1 13 13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 1 cm ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:t4:o3:1 # text = 1 cm 1 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 14 cm ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:t4:o4:1 # text = 14 cm 1 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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