Test 9 · ★★ · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants…

big long quake at the beach, it's stopped now. what next

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: stop · To what, where: big long quake

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 301 «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quake	amod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quake	amod
3	quake	quake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 beach	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beach	det
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quake	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 quake	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stopped	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 stopped	aux:pass
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 stopped	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 stopped	obl:agent
14	next	next	ADV	_	13 what	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present · passive		big long quake at the beach			now		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality subject=Eventuality

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

Walk out to see where the water went and look for shells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Walk	advcl
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 went	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 look	cc
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 shells	case
12	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	walk out	imperative	you not said here	out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past	the water		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	infinitive	you not said here	for shells	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for shell=Theme

Option 2

Stay on the beach to watch the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 beach	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beach	det
4	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 watch	mark
6	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stay	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here			the beach			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Location
2	watch	to-infinitive	you not said here	the sea					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Go to high ground or inland straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 ground	case
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ground	amod
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 inland	cc
6	inland	inland	ADV	_	4 ground	conj
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			high ground		away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial_Location

Option 4

Go home and wait for news

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wait	cc
4	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 news	case
6	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here					for news	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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