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Test 3 · ★★ · Glaciers and ice ages

A farmer finds a huge granite boulder in a field where all the rocks below are chalk. How did it most likely get there?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer, rocks · What happens: find, be, get · To what, where: huge granite boulder, field, chalk

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: A farmer finds a huge granite boulder in a field where all the rocks below are chalk.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boulder	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boulder	amod
6	granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boulder	compound
7	boulder	boulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 field	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 field	det
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boulder	nmod
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 chalk	advmod
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 rocks	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rocks	det
14	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chalk	nsubj
15	below	below	ADV	_	14 rocks	advmod
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 chalk	cop
17	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 field	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	a farmer	a huge granite boulder		a field			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boulder=Topic
2	is a	present	all rocks	chalk					tree rules

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: How did it most likely get there?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 get	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	farmer			there		likely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

The options

Option 1

Wind blew it there from far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	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 blew	obj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 blew	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 far	case
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 blew	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 far	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	Wind	it		there		far property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ice carried it there and dropped it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	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 carried	obj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 carried	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dropped	cc
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Ice	it		there			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	drop	past	Ice not said here	Ice					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It grew there slowly from a tiny seed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 grew	advmod
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 grew	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 seed	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 seed	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seed	amod
8	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	It			there		from a tiny seed; slowly property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from seed=Patient

Option 4

People made it in a factory and lost it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 factory	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 factory	det
6	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lost	cc
8	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	People	it		a factory			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
2	lose	past	People not said here	factory					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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