Test 5 · Volcanoes: how and where
Mia reckons most volcanic eruptions happen on mountains we can see. What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, most volcanic eruptions, we · What happens: reckon, happen, see, be · To what, where: mountains
This is test 5 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
Sentence 1: Mia reckons most volcanic eruptions happen on mountains we can see.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reckons | nsubj |
| 2 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 eruptions | amod |
| 4 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eruptions | amod |
| 5 | eruptions | eruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 happen | nsubj |
| 6 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 reckons | ccomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 happen | obl |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mountains | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | Mia | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | happen | present | most volcanic eruptions | mountains | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | can | we | mountains not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mountain=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: What's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Most happen unseen on the ocean floor along ridges
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 happen | xcomp |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 6 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floor | compound |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happen | obl |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 9 ridges | case |
| 9 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Most | the ocean floor | along ridges; unseen property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |
Option 2
Most happen high in the Alps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 happen | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Alps | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Alps | det |
| 6 | Alps | Alp | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 happen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Most | the Alps | high property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in alp=Location |
Option 3
All of them are on land, where people can see and count them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 land | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 land | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 see | advmod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 land | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 count | cc |
| 13 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 see | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 count | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | All | land | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | can | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | count | infinitive | people not said here | people | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 4
Most happen in Britain's mountains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mountains | case |
| 4 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mountains | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Britain | case |
| 6 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Most | Britain's mountains | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location |
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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