Test 10 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived

«cicadas just appeared everywhere this year, where were they hiding»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cicadas · What happens: appear, hide

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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	_	4 appeared	punct
2	cicadas	cicada	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appeared	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 appeared	advmod
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 appeared	advmod
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hiding	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 hiding	advmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hiding	aux
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hiding	nsubj
12	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 appeared	advcl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 hiding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear in a quote	past	cicadas				year	everywhere property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide in a quote	past · progressive	cicadas = cicada						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Underground for thirteen or seventeen years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Underground	underground	ADV	_	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
3	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 seventeen	cc
5	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thirteen	conj
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Underground	obl

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

Option 2

In the clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 clouds	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clouds	det
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Inside trees as seeds waiting for the spring rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inside	inside	ADV	_	2 trees	advmod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 seeds	case
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trees	nmod
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 seeds	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 rain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rain	det
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rain	compound
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	seeds not said here					for the spring rain	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

In other countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 countries	case
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 countries	amod
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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