Test 11 · ★ · Coal, oil and gas
Thick smog in a big city makes people cough. What is one main cause?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Thick smog, people · What happens: make, cough, be · To what, where: people, one main cause
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 59 «Coal, oil and gas» 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: Thick smog in a big city makes people cough.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 smog | amod |
| 2 | smog | smog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 city | amod |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smog | nmod |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 makes | obj |
| 9 | cough | cough | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Thick smog in a big city | people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cough | infinitive | people not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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.
Sentence 2: What is one main cause?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cause | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cause | nummod |
| 4 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cause | amod |
| 5 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cause | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | one main cause | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Burning coal and oil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Burning | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 oil | cc |
| 4 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coal | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | coal and oil | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme |
Option 2
Rainbows after summer rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rainbows | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 rain | case |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rain | compound |
| 4 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rainbows | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ocean waves on the coast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 waves | nsubj |
| 2 | waves | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 coast | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coast | det |
| 5 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waves | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | present | Ocean | the coast | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coast=Location |
Option 4
Too many trees in the parks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trees | amod |
| 3 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 parks | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parks | det |
| 6 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trees | nmod |
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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