Test 10 · Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push
A big wave hits a coast with mangroves, and another with no mangroves. Which coast is better protected?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big wave, coast · What happens: hit, be · To what, where: coast
This is test 10 of lesson 250 «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» 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: A big wave hits a coast with mangroves, and another with no mangroves.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wave | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wave | amod |
| 3 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hits | nsubj |
| 4 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 coast | det |
| 6 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hits | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 mangroves | case |
| 8 | mangroves | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hits | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 another | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 another | cc |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 hits | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 mangroves | case |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 mangroves | det |
| 14 | mangroves | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 another | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | present | a big wave | a coast | with mangroves; another obl | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent coast=Patient with mangrove=Instrument |
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 coast is better protected?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 coast | det |
| 2 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 better | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 better | cop |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which coast | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Both of them exactly the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 same | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Both | nmod |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 same | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 same | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The one without mangroves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 mangroves | case |
| 4 | mangroves | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Neither, mangroves make waves bigger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | mangroves | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | mangroves | waves | big, neither property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wave=Product |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The one with mangroves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 mangroves | case |
| 4 | mangroves | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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