Test 6 · ★★ · Glaciers and ice ages
"glaciers r just snow that never melted, they dont even move" — Tom. Fix it.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snow, glaciers, you · What happens: not melt, move, fix · To what, where: snow
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: "glaciers r just snow that never melted, they dont even move" — Tom.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 r | punct |
| 2 | glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 r | nsubj |
| 3 | r | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 move | advcl |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 snow | advmod |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 r | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 melted | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 melted | advmod |
| 8 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 snow | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 r | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 move | nsubj |
| 11 | dont | dont | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 move | aux |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 move | advmod |
| 13 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 move | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 move | punct |
| 16 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 move | vocative |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 move | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not melt in a quote | past | snow | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | move in a quote | present | glaciers = glacier | Tom vocative | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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: Fix it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Fix | obj |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fix | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | imperative | you not said here | snow | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1
Glaciers are frozen sea water that floats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 water | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 water | cop |
| 3 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 water | amod |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 water | compound |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 floats | nsubj |
| 7 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 water | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Glaciers | frozen sea water | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | float | present | frozen sea water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Glaciers are snow squashed into ice that flows downhill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 squashed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 squashed | aux:pass |
| 3 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 squashed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 ice | case |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 squashed | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 flows | nsubj |
| 8 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ice | acl:relcl |
| 9 | downhill | downhill | ADV | _ | 8 flows | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | present · passive | Glaciers | ice | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into ice=Destination | ||||
| 2 | flow | present | ice | downhill property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Glaciers are made of white rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rock | case |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rock | amod |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Glaciers | of white rock | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 4
Tom is right, glaciers never move
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 move | punct |
| 5 | glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 move | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 move | advmod |
| 7 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Tom | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not move | present | glaciers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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