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Test 7 · ★ · Plate tectonics

In a film, a crack opens and California floats off into the Pacific overnight. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crack, California · What happens: open, float off, be · To what, where: film, Pacific

This is test 7 · ★ 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: In a film, a crack opens and California floats off into the Pacific overnight.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 film	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 film	det
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opens	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 film	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crack	det
6	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opens	nsubj
7	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 floats	cc
9	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 floats	nsubj
10	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 opens	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 floats	compound:prt
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 Pacific	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Pacific	det
14	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 floats	obl
15	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	10 floats	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 opens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present	a crack			a film			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location
2	float off	present	California					into the Pacific result; overnight property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into pacific=Result

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?

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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Plates move only in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 move	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	Plates				winter		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, that really happens every century or so, after the big earthquakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happens	punct
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 happens	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 happens	advmod
5	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 century	det
7	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happens	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 so	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	7 century	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 earthquakes	punct
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 earthquakes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earthquakes	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 earthquakes	amod
14	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present					after the big earthquakes; century		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

California is not on any plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 plate	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plate	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 plate	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 plate	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 plate	det
6	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	California			any plate			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Plates slide past each other a few cm a year, not open in a night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slide	nsubj
2	slide	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	past	past	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 slide	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cm	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cm	amod
8	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slide	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slide	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 open	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 open	advmod
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slide	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 night	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 open	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	present	Plates	a few cm			year	past each	vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cm=Theme

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