Test 10 · The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fis…

«that black river's dirty, don't swim, it's oil» What is the dark colour really?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dirty, river · What happens: not swim, be · To what, where: oil, dark colour

This is test 10 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» 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	_	6 dirty	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 river	det
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 river	amod
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dirty	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 river	case
6	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 colour	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swim	punct
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 swim	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 swim	advmod
10	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dirty	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 oil	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 oil	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 oil	cop
14	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dirty	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 dirty	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 colour	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 colour	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 colour	det
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 colour	amod
20	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	really	really	ADV	_	20 colour	advmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 colour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not swim in a quote	infinitive · do-support	that black river's dirty and oil not said here		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	river	oil	tree rules
3	is a	present	that black river's dirty and oil	the dark colour	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

Oil from deep wells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 wells	case
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wells	amod
4	wells	well	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Oil	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dissolved stuff from rotting leaves, like tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stuff	amod
2	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
4	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 leaves	amod
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stuff	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tea	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 tea	case
8	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	participle							vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	rot	gerund							vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Ink squirted by octopuses that swim up the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ink	ink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	squirted	squirt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ink	xcomp
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 octopuses	case
4	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 squirted	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 swim	nsubj
6	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 octopuses	acl:relcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 swim	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swim	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ink	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	squirt	participle	you not said here		by octopuses	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by octopus=Destination
3	swim up	present	octopuses	the river		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory

Option 4

Black paint from a factory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 paint	amod
2	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 factory	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 factory	det
5	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paint	nmod

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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