Test 8 · ★ · Mountains and highlands

Why does the height of Mont Blanc change slightly from year to year?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: height · What happens: change

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 change	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 change	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 height	det
4	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 change	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Mont	case
6	Mont	Mont	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 height	nmod
7	Blanc	Blanc	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mont	flat
8	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	8 change	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 year	case
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 change	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 year	case
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 change	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 change	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present · do-support	the height of Mont				year	slightly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

People keep cutting off the top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keep	xcomp
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 top	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cutting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	People						tree rules
2	cut off	gerund	People not said here	the top					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector top=Eventuality

Option 2

It is a volcano that erupts every year and adds new rock to its top

The tree, 15 words

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	4 volcano	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 volcano	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 volcano	det
4	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 erupts	nsubj
6	erupts	erupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 volcano	acl:relcl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 erupts	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 adds	cc
10	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 erupts	conj
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rock	amod
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 adds	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 top	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 top	nmod:poss
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 adds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a volcano			tree rules
2	erupt	present	a volcano		year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	add speech: assert	present	a volcano not said here	new rock		to rock's top	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rock=Patient to top=Co-Patient

Option 3

The mountain sinks every winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mountain	det
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sinks	nsubj
3	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 winter	det
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sinks	obj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its summit is covered by an ice cap that grows and shrinks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 summit	nmod:poss
2	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	aux:pass
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 cap	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cap	det
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cap	compound
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 grows	nsubj
10	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cap	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shrinks	cc
12	shrinks	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grows	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive		Its summit	by a ice cap	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	grow	present	a ice cap			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shrink	present	a ice cap not said here			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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