Test 2 · ★★ · Glaciers and ice ages
You hike in Norway along a long, narrow arm of the sea with cliffs on both sides. What carved it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: hike, carve · To what, where: Norway, arm
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Glaciers and ice ages» 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: You hike in Norway along a long, narrow arm of the sea with cliffs on both sides.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 hike | nsubj |
| 2 | hike | hike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Norway | case |
| 4 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hike | obl |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 arm | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 arm | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 arm | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 9 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 arm | amod |
| 10 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hike | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arm | nmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cliffs | case |
| 15 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sea | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 sides | case |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 sides | det |
| 18 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cliffs | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hike | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hike | present | You | Norway | along a long narrow arm of the sea with cliffs on both sides | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in norway=Trajectory |
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 carved it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 carved | nsubj |
| 2 | carved | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carved | obj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 carved | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | past | arm | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A glacier, before the sea flooded the valley
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 | 7 flooded | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sea | punct |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 glacier | conj |
| 7 | flooded | flood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 valley | det |
| 9 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flooded | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flood | past | a glacier and the sea | the valley | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent valley=Patient |
Option 2
An earthquake opening a crack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 earthquake | det |
| 2 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 earthquake | acl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crack | det |
| 5 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opening | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | a earthquake not said here | a crack | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crack=Theme |
Option 3
Waves cutting a cave that later fell in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Waves | acl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cave | det |
| 4 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cutting | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 fell | advmod |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cave | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 fell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | gerund | Waves not said here | a cave | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cave=Product | ||||
| 2 | fall in | past | a cave | late property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
A wide river winding slowly through a hot desert
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 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 river | amod |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | winding | wind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 river | acl |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 winding | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 desert | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 desert | det |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 desert | amod |
| 9 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 winding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wind | gerund | a wide river not said here | a hot desert | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through desert=Trajectory |
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