Exam question 2 · Weathering and erosion

Ascertain the agent of erosion acknowledged to be the most powerful upon the Earth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, acknowledge, be · To what, where: agent

This is exam question 2 of lesson 52 «Weathering and erosion» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 agent	det
3	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 erosion	case
5	erosion	erosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agent	nmod
6	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 agent	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	11 powerful	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 powerful	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 powerful	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 powerful	advmod
11	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 acknowledged	advcl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 Earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Earth	det
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 powerful	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the agent of erosion		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agent=Topic
2	acknowledge	participle		the agent of erosion not said here		vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive			upon the Earth; powerful property	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.

The options

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

Running water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Glacial ice in deserts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glacial	glacial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ice	amod
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 deserts	case
4	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ice	nmod

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

Option 3

Burrowing animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burrowing	burrow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burrow	gerund							vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Wind in arid regions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 regions	case
3	arid	arid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 regions	amod
4	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wind	nmod

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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