Test 7 · Igneous rocks and the rock cycle

"is sedimentary rock basically just rocks made by volcanoes?"

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: rock · What happens: be, make · To what, where: sedimentary rocks

This is test 7 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 rocks	punct
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rocks	cop
3	sedimentary	sedimentary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rocks	amod
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rocks	nsubj
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	7 rocks	advmod
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 rocks	advmod
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rocks	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 volcanoes	case
10	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 rocks	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 rocks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	rock	sedimentary rocks				basically property	tree rules
2	make in a quote	participle		sedimentary rocks not said here				by volcanoes	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

Yes, all rocks come from volcanoes in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 rocks	det
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 volcanoes	case
7	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	all rocks			volcanoes	in the end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from volcano=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, volcanoes make igneous rock; sedimentary is pressed-together bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	igneous	igneous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rock	amod
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
8	sedimentary	sedimentary	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pressed	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pressed	aux:pass
10	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 make	conj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 pressed	punct
12	together	together	ADV	_	10 pressed	advmod
13	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pressed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	volcanoes	igneous rock					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rock=Product
2	press	present · passive		sedimentary				together property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Theme bit=Result

Option 3

No, sedimentary rocks are made by plants growing and dying on top of them

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
3	sedimentary	sedimentary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rocks	amod
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 plants	case
8	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl
9	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 plants	acl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dying	cc
11	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 growing	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 top	case
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 growing	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present · passive	plants	sedimentary rocks		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
2	grow	gerund	plants not said here		top of rocks	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location
3	die	gerund	plants not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Yes, but only the dark ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 ones	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 ones	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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