Test 2 · Inside the Earth
In a cartoon, two kids dig a hole in their garden all the way through to Australia. What's wrong with it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two kids · What happens: dig, be · To what, where: hole, cartoon
This is test 2 of lesson 41 «Inside the Earth» 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: In a cartoon, two kids dig a hole in their garden all the way through to Australia.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dig | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 kids | nummod |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dig | nsubj |
| 7 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dig | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 garden | nmod:poss |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hole | nmod |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 way | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dig | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | through | through | ADV | _ | 7 dig | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Australia | case |
| 18 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 through | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dig | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | present | two kids | a hole | a cartoon | in kids's garden; all way obl:unmarked; through property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in cartoon=Location |
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's wrong with it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrong | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with way; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The hole would fill with seawater at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hole | det |
| 2 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fill | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fill | aux |
| 4 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 seawater | case |
| 6 | seawater | seawater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fill | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 fill | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | would | the hole | with seawater | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with seawater=Instrument |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The crust alone is tens of km thick and the core is thousands of degrees
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crust | det |
| 2 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thick | nsubj |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 crust | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thick | cop |
| 5 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thick | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 km | case |
| 7 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thick | obl |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thousands | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 core | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 core | det |
| 11 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thick | conj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 thousands | cop |
| 13 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 degrees | case |
| 15 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thousands | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the crust | of km; thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | thick thousands | of degrees | tree rules |
Option 3
You'd come out in China, not Australia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 China | case |
| 6 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Australia | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 Australia | advmod |
| 9 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | would | You | Australia | China | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Nothing, you would just need a long spade and a few weeks of hard digging
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 need | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 need | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 need | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 need | advmod |
| 6 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 spade | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spade | amod |
| 9 | spade | spade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 need | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 weeks | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 weeks | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 weeks | amod |
| 13 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spade | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 digging | case |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 digging | amod |
| 16 | digging | digging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 weeks | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | would | Nothing | a long spade and a few weeks of hard digging | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spade=Theme |
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