Test 9 · ★ · Tsunamis

Why did the 2004 tsunami kill people in so many countries?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 2004 tsunami · What happens: kill · To what, where: people, many countries

This is test 9 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 kill	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tsunami	det
4	2004	2004	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 tsunami	compound
5	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	nsubj
6	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kill	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 countries	case
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 countries	amod
11	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kill	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · do-support	the 2004 tsunami	people		many countries			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It spread across the whole Indian Ocean in hours

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 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	7 Ocean	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Ocean	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Ocean	amod
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Ocean	amod
7	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 hours	case
9	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	It			the whole Indian Ocean	hour		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across ocean=Destination

Option 2

Each country had its own small tsunami

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 country	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tsunami	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tsunami	amod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tsunami	amod
7	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	each country	country's own small tsunami					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsunami=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It travelled overland across Asia

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 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	overland	overland	ADV	_	2 travelled	advmod
4	across	across	ADP	_	5 Asia	case
5	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	It			Asia		overland property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across asia=Trajectory

Option 4

Fourteen earthquakes happened at the same moment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 earthquakes	nummod
2	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 moment	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moment	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moment	amod
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Fourteen earthquakes				moment		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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