Test 11 · ★ · How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the lon…

«continents moving?? yeah right, it'd be like an earthquake every day» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: continents, it, earthquake · What happens: move, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 276 «How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life» 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	_	3 moving	punct
2	continents	continent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moving	nsubj
3	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	??	??	PUNCT	_	3 moving	punct
5	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 moving	discourse
6	right	right	INTJ	_	3 moving	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 earthquake	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 earthquake	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 earthquake	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 earthquake	cop
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 earthquake	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 earthquake	det
13	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moving	parataxis
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 earthquake	obl:unmarked
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 earthquake	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 earthquake	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 moving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	move in a quote	gerund	continents			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	would	it	day	like a earthquake	tree rules
3	is	present	a earthquake		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

They move a metre every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 metre	det
4	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 move	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 move	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	They	a metre			day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent metre=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They really move, but only a few centimetres a year, too slowly to feel

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 move	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 move	advmod
3	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 centimetres	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 centimetres	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 centimetres	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 centimetres	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 centimetres	amod
9	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 move	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 slowly	punct
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 slowly	advmod
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 move	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 feel	mark
16	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 slowly	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	They	a few centimetres			year	slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent centimetre=Theme
2	feel	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

They do not move at all; the maps are only drawn a bit differently each year

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 move	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 move	advmod
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 move	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 drawn	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maps	det
9	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 drawn	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 drawn	aux:pass
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 drawn	advmod
12	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 move	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drawn	obl:unmarked
15	differently	differently	ADV	_	12 drawn	advmod
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 year	det
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	present · do-support	They			all	year		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory
2	draw	present · passive		the maps				a bit obl:unmarked; differently property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

They only move during storms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 move	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 move	advmod
3	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	during	during	ADP	_	5 storms	case
5	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	They				during storms		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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