Test 3 · Volcanoes: how and where

"how come hawaii has volcanoes, it's not on a plate edge??"

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: come hawaii, hawaii · What happens: have, not be · To what, where: volcanoes, plate edge

This is test 3 of lesson 46 «Volcanoes: how and where» 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hawaii	amod
4	hawaii	hawaii	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 edge	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 edge	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 edge	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 edge	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 edge	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 edge	det
13	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 edge	compound
14	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	conj
15	??	??	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	come hawaii	volcanoes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volcano=Patient
2	not is in a quote	present	hawaii			a plate edge			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

It is right on the edge of the Pacific plate, where it meets Asia

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	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 edge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 edge	det
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 plate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plate	det
9	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 plate	compound
10	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 edge	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 meets	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 meets	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 meets	nsubj
14	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
15	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 meets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the edge of the Pacific plate		right property	tree rules
2	meet	present	plate	Asia					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asia=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It sits over a hotspot, hot rock rising from the deep mantle

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 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 hotspot	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hotspot	det
5	hotspot	hotspot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rock	punct
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rock	amod
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hotspot	appos
9	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 rock	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 mantle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mantle	det
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mantle	amod
13	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rising	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	It			a hotspot			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hotspot=Location
2	rise	gerund	hot rock not said here			the deep mantle			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mantle=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Its volcanoes are made by the strong tides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 volcanoes	nmod:poss
2	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 tides	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tides	det
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tides	amod
8	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive	the strong tides	Its volcanoes					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

Option 4

It doesn't have any volcanoes really, just hills

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 have	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 volcanoes	det
6	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	really	really	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hills	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 hills	advmod
10	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	It	any volcanoes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volcano=Patient

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