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Test 5 · ★★ · Latin America and the Caribbean

«why's mexico city sinking, is it on the sea??» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mexico city sinking · What happens: be · To what, where: mexico city sinking, sea, best answer

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» 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

Sentence 1: «why's mexico city sinking, is it on the sea??»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 sinking	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sinking	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sinking	cop
4	mexico	mexico	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sinking	compound
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sinking	compound
6	sinking	sinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sea	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sinking	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sea	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sea	nsubj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	??	??	PUNCT	_	12 sea	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 sea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		mexico city sinking					tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	mexico city sinking			the sea			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.

Sentence 2: Which is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 answer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best answer					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is not sinking at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sinking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sinking	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sinking	advmod
4	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sink	present · progressive	It			all			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It is floating on the Pacific Ocean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 floating	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 floating	aux
3	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 Ocean	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Ocean	det
6	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Ocean	compound
7	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 floating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present · progressive	It			the Pacific Ocean			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ocean=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is built on the soft bed of an old lake, and the ground is slowly sinking

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 built	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 built	aux:pass
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 bed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bed	det
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bed	amod
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 lake	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lake	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lake	amod
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bed	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sinking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sinking	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sinking	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sinking	aux
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	18 sinking	advmod
18	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 built	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive		It		the soft bed of a old lake			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on bed=Source
2	sink	present · progressive	the ground					slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

A volcano under the city is slowly sucking it down into the earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 volcano	det
2	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sucking	nsubj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 city	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 volcano	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sucking	aux
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 sucking	advmod
8	sucking	suck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sucking	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 sucking	compound:prt
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 earth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 earth	det
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sucking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck down	present · progressive	a volcano under the city	city		the earth		slowly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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