Test 9 · Igneous rocks and the rock cycle

Why can't you watch one full trip round the rock cycle in your lifetime?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: not watch · To what, where: one full trip, lifetime

This is test 9 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 watch	advmod
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 watch	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 watch	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 watch	nsubj
5	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 trip	nummod
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trip	amod
8	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watch	obj
9	round	round	ADP	_	12 cycle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cycle	det
11	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cycle	compound
12	cycle	cycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watch	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 lifetime	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lifetime	nmod:poss
15	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watch	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 watch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not watch	can	you	one full trip		your lifetime		round the rock cycle	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=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.

The options

Option 1

It only happens at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It				night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It stopped long ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ago	advmod
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 stopped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	It					ago property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

It happens far too deep for anyone to ever see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 deep	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 deep	advmod
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 happens	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 deep	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 anyone	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It					deep property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive					ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It usually takes millions of years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 takes	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 takes	advmod
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 takes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 millions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It	millions of years				usually property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme

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