Test 8 · Coasts and caves

Why do sea levels rising with warming matter for coastal towns?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sea levels · What happens: do, rise · To what, where: sea levels

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 levels	compound
4	levels	level	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
5	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 levels	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 matter	case
7	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 matter	compound
8	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rising	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 towns	case
10	coastal	coastal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 towns	amod
11	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rising	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		sea levels					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent level=Eventuality
2	rise	gerund	sea levels not said here					with warming matter; for coastal towns	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Beaches will grow much wider and safer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 wider	advmod
5	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 safer	cc
7	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 wider	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	future	Beaches					wide property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Cliffs will stop eroding for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eroding	erode	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eroding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	future	Cliffs						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	erode	gerund	Cliffs not said here					for good	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Erosion and flooding get worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Erosion	erosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 flooding	cc
3	flooding	flooding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Erosion	conj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Erosion and flooding					bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Storms will vanish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 vanish	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 vanish	aux
3	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	future	Storms						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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