Test 5 · Weathering and erosion
A muddy river reaches a calm lake and the water clears. What happened to the mud?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: muddy river, water · What happens: reach, clear, happen · To what, where: calm lake
This is test 5 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 muddy river reaches a calm lake and the water clears.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 2 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 river | amod |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaches | nsubj |
| 4 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 6 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lake | amod |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaches | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 clears | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clears | nsubj |
| 11 | clears | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reaches | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reaches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | a muddy river | a calm lake | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | clear | present | the water | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
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 happened to the mud?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 mud | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mud | det |
| 5 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | to the mud | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The mud floated up into the clouds as steam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mud | det |
| 2 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mud | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 floated | compound:prt |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 clouds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clouds | det |
| 7 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 floated | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 steam | case |
| 9 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floated | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float up | participle | the mud not said here | the clouds | as steam | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cloud=Destination |
Option 2
The mud dissolved into nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mud | det |
| 2 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | dissolved | dissolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mud | acl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 nothing | case |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 dissolved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissolve | participle | the mud not said here | into nothing result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into nothing=Result |
Option 3
The mud turned into fish food at once and was all eaten up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mud | det |
| 2 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 food | case |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 food | compound |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 turned | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 eaten | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 eaten | aux:pass |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 eaten | advmod |
| 12 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 turned | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 eaten | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the mud | fish food | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into food=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | eat up | past · passive | the mud not said here | all property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The water slowed and dropped it, which is deposition
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slowed | nsubj |
| 3 | slowed | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dropped | cc |
| 5 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slowed | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dropped | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 deposition | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 deposition | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 deposition | cop |
| 10 | deposition | deposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow | past | the water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | drop | past | the water not said here | water | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | deposition | tree rules |
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