Test 6 · ★★★ · Winds, monsoons and ocean currents

ugh we've been stuck in the doldrums for a week, no wind. where are we prob

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: stick, be · To what, where: we, doldrums, prob

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 22 «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» 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	ugh	ugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 stuck	aux:pass
5	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 ugh	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 doldrums	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 doldrums	det
8	doldrums	doldrums	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 week	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 week	det
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wind	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 wind	det
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ugh	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 ugh	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 prob	advmod
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 prob	cop
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 prob	nsubj
19	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ugh	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present · perfect · passive		we		the doldrums	week		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in doldrums=Destination
2	is a	present	we	prob					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

Near the South Pole itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Near	near	ADP	_	4 Pole	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pole	det
3	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Pole	compound
4	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	4 Pole	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Close to the equator

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 equator	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 equator	det
4	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Close	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Off the coast of Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Off	off	ADP	_	3 coast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coast	det
3	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Britain	case
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 coast	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

In the Roaring Forties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 Forties	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Forties	det
3	Roaring	roaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Forties	compound
4	Forties	forty	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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