Test 9 · Coasts and caves
A long curved strip of sand sticks out into the sea at the end of a beach. What is it called?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: long curved strip · What happens: curve, stick out, call · To what, where: sea, strip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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 long curved strip of sand sticks out into the sea at the end of a beach.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 strip | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 strip | amod |
| 3 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 strip | amod |
| 4 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sticks | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sand | case |
| 6 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strip | nmod |
| 7 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sticks | compound:prt |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sticks | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sticks | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 beach | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 beach | det |
| 17 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sticks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | ||||||
| 2 | stick out | present | a long curved strip of sand | the sea | at the end of a beach | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination |
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: What is it called?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 called | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | strip | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
An arch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 arch | det |
| 2 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A stack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stack | det |
| 2 | stack | stack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A stalagmite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stalagmite | det |
| 2 | stalagmite | stalagmite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A spit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spit | det |
| 2 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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