Test 5 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

Why do islands add so much to a country's coastline?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: islands · What happens: add

This is test 5 of lesson 10 «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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	4 add	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 add	aux
3	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 add	nsubj
4	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	4 add	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 coastline	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coastline	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 country	case
11	coastline	coastline	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 add	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 add	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present · do-support	islands					to a country's coastline	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to coastline=Co-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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Islands make the sea deeper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Islands	the sea				deep property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sea=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Every island has its own shore all the way round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 island	det
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shore	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shore	amod
6	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
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	3 has	parataxis
10	round	round	ADV	_	9 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	every island	island's own shore					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Patient

Option 3

The sea pushes the coast further out around each of them

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 pushes	nsubj
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coast	det
5	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obj
6	further	further	ADV	_	7 out	advmod
7	out	out	ADV	_	3 pushes	advmod
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 each	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 pushes	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 each	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	the sea	the coast		each		out property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent coast=Theme around each=Trajectory

Option 4

Islands are counted twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counted	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 counted	aux:pass
3	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 counted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present · passive		Islands				twice property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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