Test 11 · ★★★ · Rivers, lakes and ponds

«muddy river after the storm, did someone dump paint in it» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: muddy river · What happens: dump, be · To what, where: paint, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Rivers, lakes and ponds» of the biology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 river	punct
2	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 river	amod
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dump	nsubj
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 storm	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 storm	det
6	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 river	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 river	punct
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dump	aux
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 dump	nsubj
10	dump	dump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dump	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dump	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 dump	punct
15	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 answer	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 answer	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 answer	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 answer	amod
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dump	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 dump	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dump in a quote	past · do-support	muddy river after the storm	paint		paint			tree rules
2	be speech: assert	present		the best answer					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Rain rushing off the land carries soil and makes the river faster and browner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carries	nsubj
2	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Rain	acl
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 land	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rushing	obl
6	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carries	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 makes	cc
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 carries	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	obj
12	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 makes	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 browner	cc
14	browner	brown	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 faster	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	rush off	gerund	Rain not said here	the land	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Trajectory
2	carry	present	Rain	soil	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme
3	make	present	Rain not said here	the river	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset river=Product

Option 2

Yes, the colour is always pollution

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 pollution	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pollution	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pollution	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 pollution	advmod
7	pollution	pollution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the colour	pollution				always property	tree rules

Option 3

Fish turned the water brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Fish	the water				brown property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 4

The mud rises from the riverbed by itself on rainy days, as the river bed soaks up rain

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mud	det
2	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rises	nsubj
3	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 riverbed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 riverbed	det
6	riverbed	riverbed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rises	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 rises	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rises	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 soaks	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 soaks	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bed	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bed	compound
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 soaks	nsubj
17	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rises	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 soaks	compound:prt
19	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 soaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	the mud			the riverbed	day	by mud	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from riverbed=Initial_State by itself=Extent
2	soak up	present	the river bed	rain					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent rain=Source

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