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Test 2 · ★ · Tsunamis

A sailor in the deep Pacific says a tsunami passed under his ship and he felt nothing. Could that be true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sailor, that · What happens: say, pass, feel, be · To what, where: tsunami, ship, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 45 «Tsunamis» 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: A sailor in the deep Pacific says a tsunami passed under his ship and he felt nothing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sailor	det
2	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 Pacific	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pacific	det
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Pacific	amod
6	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sailor	nmod
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tsunami	det
9	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obj
10	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tsunami	acl
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 ship	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ship	nmod:poss
13	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 felt	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 felt	nsubj
16	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 felt	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a sailor in the deep Pacific	a tsunami					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tsunami=Topic
2	pass	participle		a tsunami not said here		sailor's ship			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under ship=Location
3	feel	past	sailor	nothing					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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: Could that be true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 true	aux
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 true	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	that					true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, because tsunamis travel underground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 travel	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 travel	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 travel	mark
4	tsunamis	tsunami	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 travel	nsubj
5	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	underground	underground	ADV	_	5 travel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present	tsunamis					underground property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, out there it can be under a metre high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	out	out	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 metre	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 metre	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 metre	cop
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 metre	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 metre	det
10	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	parataxis
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 metre	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	it			a metre			tree rules

Option 3

No, it would have sunk the ship at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 sunk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sunk	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sunk	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sunk	aux
6	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ship	det
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sunk	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 sunk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would · perfect · passive		it					tree rules

Option 4

No, tsunamis never cross the deep oceans at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 cross	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	tsunamis	tsunami	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cross	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 cross	advmod
5	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oceans	det
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 oceans	amod
8	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cross	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cross	present	tsunamis	the deep oceans		all			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient

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