Test 8 · The great rivers

«bloody hell, the congo's 220 metres deep?? thats deeper than a skyscraper is tall» Is the depth right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: skyscraper · What happens: be · To what, where: depth

This is test 8 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 hell	punct
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hell	amod
3	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deeper	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 metres	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 congo	det
6	congo	congo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 metres	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 congo	case
8	220	220	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 metres	nummod
9	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 deep	obl:unmarked
10	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hell	amod
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	3 hell	punct
12	thats	that	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 deeper	nsubj
13	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 tall	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 skyscraper	det
16	skyscraper	skyscraper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tall	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tall	cop
18	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 deeper	advcl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 deeper	punct
20	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 depth	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 depth	det
22	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deeper	advcl
23	right	right	ADV	_	13 deeper	advmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 deeper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a skyscraper					tall property	tree rules
2	is a	present		the depth					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 · ← Mova's choice

No, it is only 2 metres deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 deep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 deep	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 deep	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 2	advmod
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 metres	nummod
7	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 deep	obl:unmarked
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					2 metres obl:unmarked; deep property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it is more than 220 metres deep in places, the deepest river

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 deep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 more	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 more	cop
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 220	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 more	fixed
7	220	220	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 metres	nummod
8	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 deep	obl:unmarked
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 places	case
11	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 deep	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 river	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
14	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 river	amod
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deep	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					more property	tree rules

Option 3

No, no river is more than 10 metres deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 more	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 more	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 more	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 more	cop
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 10	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 more	fixed
8	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 metres	nummod
9	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 deep	obl:unmarked
10	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no river					more property	tree rules

Option 4

No, it is 22 km deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 deep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 deep	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 deep	cop
5	22	22	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 km	nummod
6	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 deep	obl:unmarked
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					22 km obl:unmarked; deep property	tree rules

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