Test 3 · Coasts and caves
A family's house on the Yorkshire coast is 20 metres from the cliff edge. Roughly when could the cliff reach it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: house, cliff · What happens: be, reach · To what, where: 20 metres, cliff edge, house
This is test 3 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
Sentence 1: A family's house on the Yorkshire coast is 20 metres from the cliff edge.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 family | case |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 metres | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 coast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coast | det |
| 7 | Yorkshire | Yorkshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 coast | compound |
| 8 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 metres | cop |
| 10 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 metres | nummod |
| 11 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 edge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 edge | det |
| 14 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 edge | compound |
| 15 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 metres | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 metres | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a family's house on the Yorkshire coast | 20 metres | the cliff edge | 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: Roughly when could the cliff reach it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 6 reach | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 reach | mark |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 reach | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cliff | det |
| 5 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reach | nsubj |
| 6 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reach | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 reach | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | could | the cliff | house | roughly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
In about 1,000 years or so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 1,000 | advmod |
| 3 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 so | cc |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 years | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Never, cliffs do not move
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 move | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Never | punct |
| 3 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 move | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 move | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 move | advmod |
| 6 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | present · do-support | cliffs | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Next week, without fail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 week | amod |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fail | punct |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 fail | case |
| 5 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 week | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
In about 10-20 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 10-20 | advmod |
| 3 | 10-20 | 10-20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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