Test 6 · ★ · Mountains and highlands

«the himalayas are done growing, they're ancient innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: himalayas · What happens: do, grow, be · To what, where: himalayas, ancient innit

This is test 6 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 himalayas	det
3	himalayas	himalaya	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 done	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 right	advcl
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 done	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 innit	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 innit	cop
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 innit	amod
11	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	parataxis
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · passive		the himalayas		tree rules
2	grow in a quote	gerund				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	himalayas = himalaya	ancient innit		tree rules
4	is	present			right property	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

They are older than the Urals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 older	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 older	cop
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 Urals	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Urals	det
6	Urals	ural	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 older	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					than the Urals; old property	tree rules

Option 2

They are shrinking a metre a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shrinking	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shrinking	aux
3	shrinking	shrink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 metre	det
5	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shrinking	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shrinking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	present · progressive	They	a metre			year		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent metre=Patient

Option 3

They stopped growing a million years ago and are wearing down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stopped	xcomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 million	det
5	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 growing	obl:unmarked
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 years	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wearing	cc
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wearing	aux
10	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stopped	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 wearing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	stop	past	They		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	They not said here	year	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wear down	present · progressive	They not said here		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are young mountains, still rising as India pushes into Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mountains	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mountains	cop
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mountains	amod
4	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rising	punct
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 rising	advmod
7	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 mountains	acl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 pushes	mark
9	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pushes	nsubj
10	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rising	advcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 Asia	case
12	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pushes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	They	young mountains			tree rules
2	rise	gerund	young mountains not said here			still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	push	present	India		Asia		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into asia=Destination

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