Test 1 · Coasts and caves

little sis: "stalagMITES go up, stalacTITES come down — how do i remember?" which is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: stalagMITES, stalacTITES, i · What happens: go up, come down, remember, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 55 «Coasts and caves» 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	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sis	amod
2	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
5	stalagMITES	stalagmite	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sis	parataxis
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 go	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
9	stalacTITES	stalactite	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 come	nsubj
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	conj
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 remember	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 remember	advmod
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 remember	aux
15	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 remember	nsubj
16	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 remember	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 remember	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 remember	ccomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sis	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go up in a quote	present	stalagMITES		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	come down in a quote	present	stalacTITES	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remember in a quote	present · do-support	i		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	is	present		right property	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.

The options

Option 1

Both hang from the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 hang	nsubj
2	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 roof	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roof	det
5	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	present	Both			the roof			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stalactites hang down from the roof, stalagmites grow up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stalactites	stalactite	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hang	nsubj
2	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 hang	compound:prt
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 roof	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roof	det
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hang	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grow	punct
8	stalagmites	stalagmite	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	nsubj
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hang	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 grow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang down	present	Stalactites			the roof			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow up	present	stalagmites						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Both grow from the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Both					from the floor	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from floor=Patient

Option 4

Stalactites grow up, stalagmites hang down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stalactites	stalactite	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 grow	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hang	punct
5	stalagmites	stalagmite	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hang	nsubj
6	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	conj
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 hang	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	present	Stalactites						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hang down	present	stalagmites						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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