Test 1 · Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs

my cousin says swamps are just useless smelly land, better drained. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, swamps, useless smelly land · What happens: say, be, drain · To what, where: useless smelly land · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 11 «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	swamps	swamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 land	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 land	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 land	advmod
7	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 land	amod
8	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 land	amod
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drained	punct
11	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 drained	advmod
12	drained	drain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 land	acl:relcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 land	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	swamps	useless smelly land		tree rules
3	drain	past	useless smelly land not said here		well property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source

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

No, but only because they look pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 look	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 look	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 look	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	they					pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, draining them always stops floods and gives farms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 draining	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	draining	drain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stops	csubj
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 draining	obj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 stops	advmod
6	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stops	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gives	cc
9	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stops	conj
10	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drain	gerund		them = they		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source
2	stop	present	draining	floods	always property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality flood=Eventuality
3	give	present	draining not said here	farms		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, wetlands soak up floods, clean water and store lots of carbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 soak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	wetlands	wetland	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 soak	nsubj
4	soak	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 soak	compound:prt
6	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 soak	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 water	punct
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floods	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lots	cc
11	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lots	compound
12	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 floods	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 carbon	case
14	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak up	present	wetlands	floods and clean water and store lots of carbon					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent flood=Source

Option 4

Yes, nothing useful lives in them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 lives	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 lives	compound
4	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nothing	amod
5	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lives	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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