Test 9 · The great rivers

Why does a river through a rainforest carry so much water?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: carry · To what, where: much water, rainforest

This is test 9 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	8 carry	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 carry	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 rainforest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rainforest	det
7	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carry	obl
8	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carry	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present · do-support		much water		a rainforest			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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

Snow melts in the rainforest every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melts	nsubj
2	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 rainforest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rainforest	det
5	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melts	obl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melts	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	Snow			the rainforest	day		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The sea flows backwards into it

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 flows	nsubj
3	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	3 flows	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	present	the sea			it		backwards property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Rainforests get heavy rain nearly all year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rainforests	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rain	amod
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 all	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Rainforests	heavy rain			year		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rain=Stimulus

Option 4

Rainforest trees make new water out of the soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trees	compound
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 soil	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 soil	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soil	det
9	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Rainforest trees	new water		the soil			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product

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