Test 10 · ★ · Plate tectonics
Your mate says the Atlantic is shrinking, so New York is getting closer to London. Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Atlantic, New York · What happens: say, shrink, get · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 42 «Plate tectonics» 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: Your mate says the Atlantic is shrinking, so New York is getting closer to London.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Atlantic | det |
| 5 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shrinking | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shrinking | aux |
| 7 | shrinking | shrink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 getting | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 getting | advmod |
| 10 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 York | flat |
| 11 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 getting | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 getting | aux |
| 13 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 shrinking | conj |
| 14 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 getting | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 London | case |
| 16 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 closer | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | shrink | present · progressive | the Atlantic | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | get | present · progressive | New York | close property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, about a metre closer each year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 closer | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 metre | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 metre | det |
| 5 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closer | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closer | obl:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, about 2.5 cm closer each year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 closer | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 2.5 | advmod |
| 4 | 2.5 | 2.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 cm | nummod |
| 5 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 closer | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closer | obl:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, GPS shows them moving apart about 2.5 cm a year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 shows | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | GPS | GPS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shows | obj |
| 6 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 shows | xcomp |
| 7 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 6 moving | advmod |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 2.5 | advmod |
| 9 | 2.5 | 2.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 cm | nummod |
| 10 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 moving | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cm | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | GPS | them = they | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | move | gerund | GPS not said here | 2.5 cm a year | apart property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
No, the distance has never changed at all, not by a single centimetre
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 changed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 distance | det |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 changed | advmod |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 changed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 centimetre | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 centimetre | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 centimetre | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 centimetre | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 centimetre | amod |
| 15 | centimetre | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not change | present · perfect | the distance | all | by a single centimetre | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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