Test 10 · Igneous rocks and the rock cycle
A pebble of basalt is ground into sand by waves. Which family could that sand become part of next?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pebble, family · What happens: be, become · To what, where: ground, sand, part
This is test 10 of lesson 48 «Igneous rocks and the rock cycle» 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: A pebble of basalt is ground into sand by waves.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pebble | det |
| 2 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ground | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 basalt | case |
| 4 | basalt | basalt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pebble | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ground | cop |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 sand | case |
| 8 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ground | nmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 waves | case |
| 10 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sand | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ground | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a pebble of basalt | ground | sand by waves | 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.
Sentence 2: Which family could that sand become part of next?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 become | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 become | aux |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sand | det |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 become | nsubj |
| 6 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 become | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 next | case |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 part | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 become | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | could | which family | part of next | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Igneous rock straight away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Igneous | igneous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rock | amod |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 away | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 rock | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Sedimentary rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sedimentary | sedimentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rock | amod |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
No rock ever again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 rock | det |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 again | advmod |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 rock | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Metal ore
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ore | compound |
| 2 | ore | ore | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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