Test 8 · ★ · Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant…

«flood in a desert in the DRY season? ur making it up» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: flood ur · What happens: make up, be · To what, where: desert

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 184 «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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	_	2 flood	punct
2	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ur	compound
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 desert	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 desert	det
5	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flood	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 season	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 season	det
8	DRY	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 season	amod
9	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 desert	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 flood	punct
11	ur	ur	PROPN	Typo=Yes	root	root
12	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ur	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 making	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 making	compound:prt
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 ur	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ur	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 ur	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up in a quote	gerund		desert					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot
2	is	present	flood ur					right property	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

In the Okavango, far-away rain arrives months later, in the dry season

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 Okavango	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Okavango	det
3	Okavango	Okavango	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 arrives	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Okavango	punct
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 far	punct
7	away	away	ADV	_	9 arrives	advmod
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arrives	nsubj
9	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 later	obl:unmarked
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 arrives	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 season	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 season	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 season	det
15	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 season	amod
16	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arrives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	rain			the Okavango	season	away, late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It floods with sand, not water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 floods	nsubj
2	floods	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 sand	case
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floods	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 water	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 water	advmod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	present	It					with sand and water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sand=Instrument

Option 3

Right, impossible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	3 impossible	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

It is only a rumour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rumour	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rumour	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 rumour	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rumour	det
5	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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