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Test 10 · Earthquakes

Your little sister bends a plastic ruler until it snaps and her hands jump. How is this like an earthquake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little sister, ruler, hands, this · What happens: bend, snap, jump, be · To what, where: plastic ruler

This is test 10 of lesson 44 «Earthquakes» 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 little sister bends a plastic ruler until it snaps and her hands jump.

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	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bends	nsubj
4	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ruler	det
6	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ruler	amod
7	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bends	obj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 snaps	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 snaps	nsubj
10	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bends	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 jump	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 jump	nsubj
14	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 snaps	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	present	Your little sister	a plastic ruler					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent ruler=Material
2	snap	present	ruler						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	jump	present	sister's hands						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: How is this like an earthquake?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 How	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 earthquake	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 earthquake	det
6	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 this	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The ruler shows how lava squeezes out of a volcano

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ruler	det
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 squeezes	advmod
5	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squeezes	nsubj
6	squeezes	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shows	ccomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 volcano	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 volcano	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 volcano	det
10	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squeezes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	the ruler						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	squeeze out	present	lava	a volcano					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volcano=Theme

Option 2

It shows how the Moon pulls the plates up and down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 pulls	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	nsubj
6	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plates	det
8	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pulls	obj
9	up	up	ADV	_	6 pulls	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 down	cc
11	down	down	ADV	_	9 up	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pull	present	the Moon	the plates					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme

Option 3

It isn't like an earthquake at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 earthquake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 earthquake	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 earthquake	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 earthquake	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 earthquake	det
6	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 earthquake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It			all		like a earthquake	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Strain builds up slowly, then is released all at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strain	strain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 builds	nsubj
2	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 builds	compound:prt
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 builds	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 released	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 released	advmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 released	aux:pass
8	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 builds	parataxis
9	all	all	ADV	_	8 released	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 released	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build up	present	Strain					slowly property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	release	present · passive					then	all property	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»

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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