Test 1 · ★ · Mountains and highlands

Ruby says: «Everest is the tallest mountain, end of story.» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ruby, Everest, best answer · What happens: say, be · To what, where: tallest mountain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 17 «Mountains and highlands» 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: Ruby says: «Everest is the tallest mountain, end of story.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 mountain	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 mountain	punct
5	Everest	Everest	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mountain	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mountain	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mountain	det
8	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 mountain	amod
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 end	punct
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mountain	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 story	case
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 end	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ruby						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Everest	the tallest mountain					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: What is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	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	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	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

Ruby is right in every way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ruby			every way		right property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Everest is the highest above sea level, but Mauna Kea is taller from its base

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everest	everest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 highest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 highest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 highest	det
4	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	above	above	ADP	_	7 level	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 level	compound
7	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 highest	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 taller	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 taller	cc
10	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 taller	nsubj
11	Kea	Kea	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mauna	flat
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 taller	cop
13	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 highest	amod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 base	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 base	nmod:poss
16	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Everest			sea level		high property	tree rules
2	is	present	Mauna			Everest's base		tall property	tree rules

Option 3

Kilimanjaro is the tallest, because it stands alone on a flat plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kilimanjaro	Kilimanjaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tallest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tallest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tallest	det
4	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stands	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 stands	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stands	nsubj
8	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tallest	conj
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 stands	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 plain	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 plain	det
12	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 plain	amod
13	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stands	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Kilimanjaro					tall property	tree rules
2	stand	present	it			a flat plain		alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on plain=Location

Option 4

K2 is the tallest, and Everest comes second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	K2	K2	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tallest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tallest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tallest	det
4	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 comes	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 comes	cc
7	Everest	Everest	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tallest	parataxis
9	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	K2					tall property	tree rules
2	come	present	Everest					second property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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