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Test 10 · ★★ · Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric…

Smoke rises where forest is being cleared. Which is a likely result?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Smoke · What happens: rise, clear, be · To what, where: forest, likely result

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 158 «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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

Sentence 1: Smoke rises where forest is being cleared.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rises	nsubj
2	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 cleared	advmod
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cleared	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cleared	aux:pass
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cleared	aux:pass
7	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rises	advcl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	Smoke						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	clear	present · passive		forest					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=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.

Sentence 2: Which is a likely result?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 result	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 result	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 result	det
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 result	amod
5	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 result	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a likely result					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The river becomes deeper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the river						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

More rain would fall everywhere, because the open ground would be cooler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 rain	amod
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 fall	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cooler	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 cooler	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ground	amod
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cooler	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cooler	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 cooler	cop
13	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 fall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	More rain					everywhere property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	would	the open ground					cool property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Less rain, because the trees help make the Amazon's rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 rain	amod
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 help	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 help	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 help	nsubj
7	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Amazon	det
10	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 rain	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Amazon	case
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Less rain	the Amazon's rain					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rain=Product
2	rain		the Amazon						nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Animals get bigger homes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 homes	amod
4	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Animals	bigger homes					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus

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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