Test 9 · ★ · Rivers shaping the land

Why are big river floods so deadly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big river · What happens: be, flood · To what, where: big river

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 53 «Rivers shaping the land» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 river	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 river	cop
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 river	amod
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floods	nsubj
5	floods	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 deadly	advmod
7	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 floods	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 floods	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		big river					tree rules
2	flood	present	big river					deadly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Flood water is boiling hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boiling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boiling	aux
4	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boiling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	present · progressive	Flood water					hot property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Floods happen without any water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happen	nsubj
2	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Floods					without any water	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Rivers flood only in empty deserts, far from any towns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flood	nsubj
2	flood	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 deserts	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 deserts	case
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deserts	amod
6	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flood	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 towns	punct
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 towns	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 towns	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 towns	det
11	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	present	Rivers			empty deserts		from any towns	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Many people live and farm on the flat land beside rivers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 farm	cc
5	farm	farm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 live	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 land	det
8	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 land	amod
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 rivers	case
11	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 land	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Many people			the flat land beside rivers			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location
2	farm	present	Many people not said here						vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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