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Test 5 · ★ · Campfires, cold nights and rivers

A boy in Wales sees a river with a smooth surface and thinks it must be slow. What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, river, truth · What happens: see, think, be · To what, where: river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 231 «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» of the everyday 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 boy in Wales sees a river with a smooth surface and thinks it must be slow.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Wales	case
4	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 surface	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 surface	det
10	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 surface	amod
11	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thinks	cc
13	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sees	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 slow	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 slow	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 slow	cop
17	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thinks	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a boy in Wales	a river				with a smooth surface	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	present	a boy in Wales not said here						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	must	river					slow 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.

Sentence 2: What is the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Smooth water is always slow, all the way down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slow	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 slow	advmod
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slow	obl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Smooth water					all way obl; always, slow property	tree rules

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

It may still be fast and strong underneath

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 fast	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fast	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fast	cop
5	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 strong	cc
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fast	conj
8	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	7 strong	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	It				still	fast property	tree rules
2	be							underneath property	tree rules

Option 3

Only the noisy, splashing rivers are ever dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 noisy	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 noisy	det
3	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rivers	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 splashing	punct
5	splashing	splash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 rivers	amod
6	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dangerous	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dangerous	cop
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 dangerous	advmod
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splash	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	noisy splashing rivers				ever	dangerous property	tree rules

Option 4

Smooth water means the river is shallow there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shallow	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shallow	cop
7	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	ccomp
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 shallow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Smooth water						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the river			there		shallow property	tree rules

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