Test 5 · Igneous rocks and the rock cycle
Mia says: "A rock is a rock for ever, it never changes." What's true?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, rock · What happens: say, be, not change · To what, where: rock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 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: Mia says: "A rock is a rock for ever, it never changes."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 rock | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 rock | punct |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rock | det |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rock | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rock | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 ever | case |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 rock | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 changes | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 changes | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 changes | advmod |
| 15 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 changes | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 changes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mia | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a rock | a rock | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not change in a quote | present | rock | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Only igneous rocks can change
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 rocks | advmod |
| 2 | igneous | igneous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rocks | amod |
| 3 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 change | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 change | aux |
| 5 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | can | igneous rocks | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Rocks change into other kinds of rock every few weeks, after heavy rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 change | nsubj |
| 2 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 kinds | case |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kinds | amod |
| 5 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 change | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kinds | nmod |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 weeks | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weeks | amod |
| 10 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 change | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rain | punct |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 rain | case |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rain | amod |
| 14 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 change | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Rocks | after heavy rain; week | into other kinds of rock result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into kind=Result |
Option 3
She's right, rocks never change at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | _ | 7 change | punct |
| 5 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 change | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 change | advmod |
| 7 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 change | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not change | present | rocks | all | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Over millions of years rocks are worn, squeezed or melted into other rocks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 2 millions | case |
| 2 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 worn | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 millions | nmod |
| 5 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 worn | aux:pass |
| 7 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 squeezed | punct |
| 9 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 worn | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 melted | cc |
| 11 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 worn | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 rocks | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rocks | amod |
| 14 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 melted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present · passive | rocks | millions of years | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | squeeze | participle | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | melt | participle | other rocks | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into rock=Product |
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