Test 6 · ★★ · Weather emergencies

Why do people near the coast in New Zealand say long or strong, get gone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: say, go · To what, where: long · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 say	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	nsubj
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 coast	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coast	det
6	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Zealand	case
8	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Zealand	flat
9	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 coast	nmod
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	advcl
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 say	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 strong	cc
13	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 long	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
15	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 gone	aux:pass
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	people near the coast in New Zealand	long					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent long=Topic
2	go	infinitive · passive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»

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

Strong quakes make the tide go out for a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 quakes	amod
2	quakes	quake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tide	det
5	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 week	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Strong quakes	the tide					tree rules
2	go out	infinitive	the tide not said here				week	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Long quakes break up all the roads near the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 quakes	amod
2	quakes	quake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 break	nsubj
3	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 break	compound:prt
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 roads	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 roads	det
7	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 break	obj
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break up	present	Long quakes	all roads		the sea			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient

Option 3

The sea gets far too cold after an earthquake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 cold	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gets	xcomp
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 earthquake	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 earthquake	det
9	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the sea				after a earthquake	cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A long or strong quake may cause a tsunami

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 quake	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quake	amod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 strong	cc
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 long	conj
5	quake	quake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cause	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cause	aux
7	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tsunami	det
9	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	may	a long quake	a tsunami					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tsunami=Patient

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