On holiday in Oregon, a family on the beach feel the ground shake for a long time. There is no siren yet. What is right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, ground, siren · What happens: feel, shake, be · To what, where: ground, holiday
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 326 «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, 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
Sentence 1: On holiday in Oregon, a family on the beach feel the ground shake for a long time.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
On
on
ADP
_
2 holiday
case
2
holiday
holiday
NOUN
Number=Sing
11 feel
obl
3
in
in
ADP
_
4 Oregon
case
4
Oregon
Oregon
PROPN
Number=Sing
2 holiday
nmod
5
,
,
PUNCT
_
2 holiday
punct
6
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
7 family
det
7
family
family
NOUN
Number=Sing
11 feel
nsubj
8
on
on
ADP
_
10 beach
case
9
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
10 beach
det
10
beach
beach
NOUN
Number=Sing
7 family
nmod
11
feel
feel
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
12
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
13 ground
det
13
ground
ground
NOUN
Number=Sing
11 feel
obj
14
shake
shake
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
11 feel
xcomp
15
for
for
ADP
_
18 time
case
16
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
18 time
det
17
long
long
ADJ
Degree=Pos
18 time
amod
18
time
time
NOUN
Number=Sing
14 shake
obl
19
.
.
PUNCT
_
11 feel
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
feel
infinitive
a family on the beach
the ground
holiday in Oregon
tree rules
2
shake
infinitive
the ground not said here
time
vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
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.
vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial_Location
2
wait
gerund
you not said here
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.