Test 11 · The great rivers

Why did the Aswan High Dam help and harm Egypt at the same time?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Aswan · What happens: do, help, harm · To what, where: Egypt

This is test 11 of lesson 16 «The great rivers» 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	root	root
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 help	det
4	Aswan	Aswan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 help	nsubj
5	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 help	amod
6	Dam	Dam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 help	compound
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 harm	cc
9	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 help	conj
10	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 harm	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 harm	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help		Aswan			tree rules
3	harm	infinitive	Aswan not said here	Egypt	time	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus egypt=Experiencer

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

It brought floods every week but no water

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	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 week	det
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obl:unmarked
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 water	cc
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 week	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	It	floods			week		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flood=Theme

Option 2

It gave the fields more silt but took away all the river's water

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	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fields	det
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 silt	amod
6	silt	silt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 took	advmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 water	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 water	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 river	case
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	It	the fields					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent field=Recipient silt=Theme
2	take away	past		the river's water				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It gave steady water and power but held back the rich silt

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	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 power	cc
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	conj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 held	cc
8	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 held	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 silt	det
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 silt	amod
12	silt	silt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	It	steady water and power					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent water=Recipient silt=Theme
2	hold back	past							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It made the Nile flow backwards

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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Nile	det
4	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 flow	nsubj
5	flow	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	ccomp
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	2 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It					backwards property	tree rules
2	flow	present	the Nile						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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