Test 7 · Soil
Sam's garden soil turns into a puddle that won't drain after rain. What does it probably have too much of?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: garden soil, puddle, Sam, soil · What happens: turn, not drain, soil, have · To what, where: puddle, much
This is test 7 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
Sentence 1: Sam's garden soil turns into a puddle that won't drain after rain.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 soil | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soil | compound |
| 4 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turns | nsubj |
| 5 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 puddle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 puddle | det |
| 8 | puddle | puddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turns | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 drain | nsubj |
| 10 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 drain | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 drain | advmod |
| 12 | drain | drain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 puddle | acl:relcl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 rain | case |
| 14 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drain | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turns | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Sam's garden soil | a puddle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into puddle=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not drain | future | a puddle | after rain | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 3 | soil | Sam | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=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.
Sentence 2: What does it probably have too much of?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 much | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | soil | much | probably property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Earthworm tunnels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Earthworm | earthworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tunnels | compound |
| 2 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Clay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Air spaces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spaces | compound |
| 2 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Rich humus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 humus | amod |
| 2 | humus | humus | 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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