Exam question 3 · Coasts and caves

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning longshore drift.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, longshore drift

This is exam question 3 of lesson 55 «Coasts and caves» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	longshore	longshore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 drift	amod
13	drift	drift	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	longshore drift		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus drift=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

Sediment is conveyed along the coast by waves approaching at an angle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sediment	sediment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveyed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 conveyed	aux:pass
3	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 coast	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coast	det
6	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveyed	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 waves	case
8	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 conveyed	obl:agent
9	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 waves	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 angle	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 angle	det
12	angle	angle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 approaching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	present · passive	waves	Sediment				along the coast	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
2	approach	gerund	waves not said here			a angle			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Sediment is conveyed inland by the wind exclusively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sediment	sediment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveyed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 conveyed	aux:pass
3	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	inland	inland	ADV	_	3 conveyed	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveyed	obl
8	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	3 conveyed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	present · passive	the wind	Sediment				exclusively, inland property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic

Option 3

Sediment is dissolved by acidic rainfall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sediment	sediment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolved	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dissolved	aux:pass
3	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 rainfall	case
5	acidic	acidic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rainfall	amod
6	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	present · passive	acidic rainfall	Sediment					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4

Sediment is deposited solely within caverns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sediment	sediment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deposited	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 deposited	aux:pass
3	deposited	deposit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 deposited	advmod
5	within	within	ADP	_	6 caverns	case
6	caverns	cavern	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 deposited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deposit	present · passive		Sediment				within caverns; solely property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/e3/