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Test 7 · Weathering and erosion

Grandad: "bloody farm next door ripped out all the trees, now the field washes into the road every storm." Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farm next door, field · What happens: rip out, wash · To what, where: trees, road

This is test 7 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: Grandad: "bloody farm next door ripped out all the trees, now the field washes into the road every storm."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 storm	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 door	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 farm	punct
4	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 farm	amod
5	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	compound
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 door	amod
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 storm	nsubj
8	ripped	rip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 door	acl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 ripped	compound:prt
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 trees	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ripped	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 washes	punct
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 washes	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 field	det
16	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 washes	nsubj
17	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 storm	csubj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 road	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 road	det
20	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 washes	obl
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 storm	det
22	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 storm	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 storm	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rip out in a quote	participle	farm next door not said here	all trees					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
2	wash in a quote	present	the field			the road	now		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Soil grows faster without trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 grows	advmod
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 trees	case
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Soil					without trees; fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Without trees, soil erodes many times faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Without	without	ADP	_	2 trees	case
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 erodes	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 trees	punct
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 erodes	nsubj
5	erodes	erode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 times	amod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 erodes	obl:unmarked
8	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 erodes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	erode	present	soil				time	without trees	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Roads attract soil like a magnet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attract	nsubj
2	attract	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attract	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 magnet	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 magnet	det
6	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attract	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attract	present	Roads	soil				like a magnet	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient

Option 4

Trees cause storms, so removing them is bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cause	nsubj
2	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cause	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bad	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 bad	advmod
6	removing	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 bad	csubj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 removing	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bad	cop
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cause	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Trees	storms					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition storm=Patient
2	remove	gerund		storms = storm					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	is	present	removing					bad property	tree rules

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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