Test 8 · Earthquakes

Where would the shaking usually be strongest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shaking · What happens: be

This is test 8 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 strongest	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shaking	det
4	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strongest	nsubj
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 strongest	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 strongest	cop
7	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Where	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the shaking					strong, usually property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

On the other side of the Earth, opposite the focus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 side	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 side	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 side	amod
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 side	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 focus	punct
9	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	11 focus	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 focus	det
11	focus	focus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 side	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Exactly halfway round the world from the focus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 halfway	advmod
2	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	5 world	advmod
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 focus	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 focus	det
8	focus	focus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 world	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

In the city furthest from the fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 city	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 city	det
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	furthest	furth	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 city	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 fault	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fault	det
7	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 city	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Near the epicentre, right above the focus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Near	near	ADP	_	3 epicentre	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 epicentre	det
3	epicentre	epicentre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 focus	punct
5	right	right	ADV	_	8 focus	advmod
6	above	above	ADP	_	8 focus	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 focus	det
8	focus	focus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 epicentre	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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