Test 4 · ★ · Tsunamis

After the first wave, people walk back down to the shore to look. Why is that dangerous?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: walk back, look, be

This is test 4 · ★ 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: After the first wave, people walk back down to the shore to look.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	4 wave	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wave	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 wave	amod
4	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wave	punct
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 walk	nsubj
7	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	9 down	advmod
9	down	down	ADV	_	7 walk	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 shore	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shore	det
12	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 look	mark
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 walk	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk back	present	people				after the first wave	to the shore result; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shore=Result
2	look	to-infinitive	people not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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: Why is that dangerous?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dangerous	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 dangerous	mark
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dangerous	punct

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

The options

Option 1

The first wave is always followed by a big fire on the beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wave	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 wave	amod
3	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followed	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 followed	aux:pass
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 followed	advmod
6	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 fire	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fire	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fire	amod
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followed	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 beach	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beach	det
13	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fire	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present · passive	a big fire on the beach	the first wave				always property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

It is not dangerous, once the first wave is gone the danger is over

The tree, 14 words

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	4 dangerous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 dangerous	advmod
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gone	punct
6	once	once	SCONJ	_	11 gone	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wave	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 wave	amod
9	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	cop
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dangerous	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 danger	det
13	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	obj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 over	cop
15	over	over	ADV	_	4 dangerous	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It	dangerous property	tree rules
2	is	present	the first wave	go property	tree rules
3	is	present		over property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

More waves come minutes apart and the next may be bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 waves	amod
2	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	obj
5	apart	apart	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bigger	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 next	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bigger	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 bigger	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 bigger	cop
11	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 come	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	More waves				minute	apart property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	may	the next					big property	tree rules

Option 4

The beach will be too hot to walk on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beach	det
2	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hot	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hot	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hot	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 hot	advmod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 walk	mark
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hot	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	the beach					hot property	tree rules
2	walk on	to-infinitive	the beach not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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