Test 3 · ★★ · Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes

Your mate says: "Only idiots live next to a volcano." What's the fairer answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, idiots, fairer answer · What happens: say, live, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 47 «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» 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: Your mate says: "Only idiots live next to a volcano."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 live	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 live	punct
6	Only	only	ADV	_	7 idiots	advmod
7	idiots	idiot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 live	nsubj
8	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
9	next	next	ADV	_	8 live	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 volcano	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 volcano	det
12	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 live	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live in a quote	present	idiots					to a volcano; next property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What's the fairer answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fairer answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Volcanic soil is rich for farming, and warnings can give time to leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 soil	amod
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rich	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 farming	case
6	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rich	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 give	cc
9	warnings	warning	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 give	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rich	parataxis
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 leave	mark
14	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 time	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Volcanic soil		for farming; rich property	tree rules
2	give	can	warnings	time		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	leave	to-infinitive	warnings not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He's right, nobody gets anything good from volcanoes, only danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gets	punct
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 gets	obj
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 anything	amod
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 volcanoes	case
10	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gets	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 danger	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 danger	advmod
13	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	get	present	nobody	anything		volcanoes			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent anything=Theme from volcano=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Volcanoes never erupt where people live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 erupt	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 erupt	advmod
3	erupt	erupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 live	advmod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	nsubj
6	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 erupt	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not erupt	present	Volcanoes						tree rules
2	live	present	people						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

People there are paid by the government to guard the volcano day and night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paid	nsubj:pass
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	1 People	expl
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	aux:pass
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 government	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 government	det
7	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obl:agent
8	to	to	PART	_	9 guard	mark
9	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 paid	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	compound
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guard	obl:unmarked
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 night	cc
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · passive	the government	People					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset
2	guard	to-infinitive	the government not said here				day		vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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