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Test 3 · Weathering and erosion

An old limestone church statue has a blurred, melted-looking face. What most likely did it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: old church statue · What happens: have, blur, melt, look, do · To what, where: blurred looking face, face

This is test 3 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: An old limestone church statue has a blurred, melted-looking face.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 statue	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 statue	amod
3	limestone	limestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 church	compound
4	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 statue	compound
5	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 face	det
8	blurred	blur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 face	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 melted	punct
10	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 blurred	conj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 blurred	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 face	amod
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a old church statue	a blurred looking face					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
2	blur	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	melt	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	look	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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: What most likely did it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 likely	advmod
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		face				likely property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Wind blowing sand at it from a far desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Wind	acl
3	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blowing	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blowing	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 desert	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 desert	det
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 desert	amod
9	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	gerund	Wind not said here	sand		sand		from a far desert	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sand=Patient from desert=Co-Patient

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

Slightly acidic rain slowly dissolving it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	2 acidic	advmod
2	acidic	acidic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rain	amod
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dissolving	nsubj
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 dissolving	advmod
5	dissolving	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dissolving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	gerund	acidic rain	it				slowly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

A glacier scraping past it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 glacier	det
2	glacier	glacier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	scraping	scrape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 glacier	acl
4	past	past	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scraping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrape	gerund	a glacier not said here					past glacier	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Earthquakes shaking it again and again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shaking	nsubj
2	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shaking	obj
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 shaking	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 again	cc
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 again	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund	Earthquakes	it			again		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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