Test 2 · Weathering and erosion
A milk bottle full of water was left outside in a frosty night and cracked. Which rock process does this copy?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rock process · What happens: leave, crack, copy · To what, where: milk bottle
This is test 2 of lesson 52 «Weathering and erosion» 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: A milk bottle full of water was left outside in a frosty night and cracked.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bottle | det |
| 2 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bottle | compound |
| 3 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bottle | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux:pass |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 8 left | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 12 | frosty | frosty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 night | amod |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cracked | cc |
| 15 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | a milk bottle | night | outside property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | crack | past | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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.
Sentence 2: Which rock process does this copy?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 rock | det |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 process | compound |
| 3 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 copy | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 copy | aux |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 copy | nsubj |
| 6 | copy | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 copy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | present · do-support | rock process | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Frost weathering, as freezing water expands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 weathering | compound |
| 2 | weathering | weathering | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 expands | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 expands | mark |
| 5 | freezing | freeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 water | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expands | nsubj |
| 7 | expands | expand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 weathering | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | expand | present | freezing water | Frost weathering not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent weathering=Patient |
Option 2
Erosion by wind blasting sand against rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Erosion | erosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 wind | case |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Erosion | nmod |
| 4 | blasting | blast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Erosion | acl |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blasting | obj |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blasting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blast | gerund | Erosion by wind not said here | sand | against rock | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sand=Instrument against rock=Patient | |||
| 2 | erode | wind | nom erosion «process transitive»: by=agent |
Option 3
Rain slowly dissolving a block of limestone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dissolving | nsubj |
| 2 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 dissolving | advmod |
| 3 | dissolving | dissolve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 block | det |
| 5 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dissolving | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 limestone | case |
| 7 | limestone | limestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 block | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissolve | gerund | Rain | a block of limestone | slowly property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent block=Patient |
Option 4
Deposition at a river mouth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deposition | deposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 mouth | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mouth | det |
| 4 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mouth | compound |
| 5 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Deposition | nmod |
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