Test 6 · Soil

grandad: "lose the topsoil in a storm, it's back next spring, no worries" — is he right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: topsoil, grandad · What happens: lose, be · To what, where: topsoil, storm

This is test 6 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	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 right	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 lose	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lose	punct
4	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 grandad	appos
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 topsoil	det
6	topsoil	topsoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 storm	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 storm	det
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 back	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 back	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 back	cop
13	back	back	ADV	_	4 lose	advmod
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spring	amod
15	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 back	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 worries	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 worries	det
18	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	parataxis
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 worries	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 right	punct
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 right	cop
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 right	nsubj
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	infinitive		the topsoil	a storm			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent topsoil=Eventuality
2	is in a quote	present	topsoil			spring	back property	tree rules
3	is	present	grandad				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

No, soil can never form at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 form	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 form	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 form	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 form	advmod
6	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 form	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not form	can	soil			all			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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

No, a few centimetres can take hundreds to a thousand years to form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 centimetres	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 centimetres	amod
5	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 years	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thousand	det
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 form	mark
14	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	can	a few centimetres	hundreds			year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme
2	form	to-infinitive	a few centimetres not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, rain makes new soil in weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soil	amod
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 weeks	case
8	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	rain	new soil			week		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soil=Product

Option 4

Yes, soil grows back every spring once the worms wake up and get going

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 soil	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 grows	advmod
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 spring	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl:unmarked
8	once	once	SCONJ	_	11 wake	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 worms	det
10	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wake	nsubj
11	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grows	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 wake	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wake	conj
15	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	grow back	present	soil	spring	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wake up	present	the worms		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	get	infinitive	the worms not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	gerund	the worms not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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