Test 9 · Volcanoes: how and where

"the volcano stinks like rotten eggs, what is that"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: volcano, that · What happens: stink, be

This is test 9 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	_	4 stinks	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 volcano	det
3	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stinks	nsubj
4	stinks	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 eggs	case
6	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eggs	amod
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stinks	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 eggs	appos
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 what	cop
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 what	nsubj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stink in a quote	present	the volcano					like rotten eggs	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	that						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 · ← Mova's choice

Rotting trees buried under the ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 trees	acl
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 ash	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ash	det
6	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	gerund							vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	bury	participle		Rotting trees not said here		the ash			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under ash=Destination

Option 2

The smell of the hot rocks only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smell	det
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 rocks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rocks	det
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rocks	amod
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smell	nmod
7	only	only	ADV	_	6 rocks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell		the hot rocks						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

Lava burning old food in the crater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Lava	acl
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burning	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 crater	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crater	det
7	crater	crater	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund	Lava not said here	old food		the crater			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sulfur gases from the volcano

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sulfur	sulfur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gases	compound
2	gases	gas	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 volcano	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 volcano	det
5	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gases	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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