Test 5 · ★★ · Weather emergencies

Which is true about earthquakes?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 48 «Weather emergencies» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 earthquakes	case
5	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about earthquakes; true 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

The ground opens and swallows people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ground	det
2	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opens	nsubj
3	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 swallows	cc
5	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 opens	conj
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swallows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present	the ground						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swallow	present	the ground not said here	people					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 2

You should always run outside at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 run	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 run	advmod
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	should	You					always, outside property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory

Option 3

Doorways are the safest place in every building, old or new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doorways	doorway	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 place	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 place	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 building	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 building	det
8	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 place	amod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 new	cc
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Doorways	the safest place		every building			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You drop, cover and hold on until the shaking stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 drop	nsubj
2	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cover	punct
4	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drop	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hold	cc
6	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drop	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 hold	compound:prt
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 stops	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shaking	det
10	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stops	nsubj
11	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hold	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	drop	present	You	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	cover	infinitive	You not said here	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	hold on	infinitive	You not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop	present	the shaking	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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