Test 9 · ★★ · Minerals and crystals

Why did the Naica crystals grow so huge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Naica crystals · What happens: grow

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 50 «Minerals and crystals» 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	6 grow	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crystals	det
4	Naica	Naica	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crystals	compound
5	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 huge	advmod
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grow	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · do-support	the Naica crystals					huge property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They grew very slowly for a very long time in warm mineral water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 slowly	advmod
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 grew	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 water	case
11	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
12	mineral	mineral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	They			warm mineral water	time	slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location

Option 2

Someone glued lots of small crystals together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 glued	nsubj
2	glued	glue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 glued	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 crystals	case
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crystals	amod
6	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lots	nmod
7	together	together	ADV	_	2 glued	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue	past	Someone	lots of small crystals				together property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

Option 3

They were made in a factory and hidden there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 factory	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 factory	det
6	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hidden	cc
8	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 made	conj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 hidden	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		They		a factory			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	hide	participle				there			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They all grew in a single night after a big earthquake shook the cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 grew	advmod
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 night	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 shook	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 earthquake	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 earthquake	amod
11	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shook	nsubj
12	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cave	det
14	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	They				night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shake	past	a big earthquake	the cave					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cave=Patient

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