Test 10 · Soil

Which is a way soil gets degraded?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: way soil

This is test 10 of lesson 56 «Soil» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 degraded	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 degraded	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 soil	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soil	compound
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 degraded	nsubj:pass
6	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 degraded	aux:pass
7	degraded	degrade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 degraded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · passive		a way soil				degrade 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 · ← Mova's choice

Rain soaking in slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	soaking	soak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Rain	acl
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 soaking	advmod
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 soaking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak in	gerund	Rain not said here					slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Leaves falling and rotting on top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Leaves	acl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 rotting	cc
4	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 falling	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 top	case
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rotting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund	Leaves not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rot	gerund	Leaves not said here			top			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Erosion, salt, pollution or overuse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Erosion	erosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 salt	punct
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Erosion	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pollution	punct
5	pollution	pollution	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Erosion	conj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 overuse	cc
7	overuse	overuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Erosion	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Earthworms digging lots of tunnels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Earthworms	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Earthworms	acl
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 digging	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 tunnels	case
5	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund	Earthworms not said here	lots of tunnels					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lot=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.

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