Test 6 · ★ · Plate tectonics

"san andreas fault, mate, does it make volcanoes or what?"

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: andreas fault · What happens: make · To what, where: volcanoes

This is test 6 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fault	punct
2	san	san	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 andreas	amod
3	andreas	andrea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fault	compound
4	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fault	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fault	punct
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 make	aux
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	nsubj
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 volcanoes	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present · do-support	andreas fault and mate	volcanoes					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset volcano=Product

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

No, nothing at all happens there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 nothing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 happens	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 nothing	nmod
6	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 happens	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	nothing			there			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, it is the biggest volcano belt in the world, bigger than the whole of Japan

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 belt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 belt	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 belt	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 belt	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 belt	amod
7	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 belt	compound
8	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 belt	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bigger	punct
13	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 belt	conj
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 whole	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 whole	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bigger	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Japan	case
18	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 whole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the biggest volcano belt		the world			tree rules
2	be							than the whole	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, magma rises where the plates pull apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 rises	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	magma	magma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rises	nsubj
4	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 pull	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plates	det
7	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pull	nsubj
8	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rises	advcl
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	8 pull	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	magma						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pull apart	present	the plates					apart property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, plates slide sideways there, so it gives earthquakes, not volcanoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 slide	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slide	nsubj
4	slide	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 slide	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gives	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 gives	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gives	nsubj
10	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slide	conj
11	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gives	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 volcanoes	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 volcanoes	advmod
14	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	present	plates	volcanoes		there			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	present	it	earthquakes					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earthquake=Theme

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