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Test 5 · ★ · Plate tectonics

Japan has deep trenches offshore and a line of volcanoes. What is happening under it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Japan · What happens: have, happen · To what, where: deep trenches, line

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Japan has deep trenches offshore and a line of volcanoes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trenches	amod
4	trenches	trench	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	offshore	offshore	ADV	_	4 trenches	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 line	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 line	det
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trenches	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 volcanoes	case
10	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 line	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Japan	deep trenches and a line of volcanoes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trench=Patient

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 is happening under it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happening	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happening	aux
3	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happening	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present · progressive				line			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under it=Location

The options

Option 1

The plates are pulling apart there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plates	det
2	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pulling	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pulling	aux
4	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	apart	apart	ADV	_	4 pulling	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 pulling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull apart	present · progressive	the plates			there		apart property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

An ocean plate is diving down in a subduction zone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plate	det
2	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plate	compound
3	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 diving	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 diving	aux
5	diving	dive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 diving	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 zone	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 zone	det
9	subduction	subduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 zone	compound
10	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 diving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive down	present · progressive	a ocean plate					in a subduction zone; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in zone=Attribute

Option 3

Nothing, Japan sits safely in the middle of a big plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 sits	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sits	nsubj
4	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	safely	safely	ADV	_	4 sits	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 plate	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 plate	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plate	amod
12	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Nothing			the middle of a big plate		safely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location

Option 4

Two continents are colliding there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 continents	nummod
2	continents	continent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 colliding	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 colliding	aux
4	colliding	collide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 colliding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collide	present · progressive	Two continents			there			vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme

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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