Test 9 · ★ · Coal, oil and gas
A bog in Ireland has brown, squashy, rotting plant layers that burn when dried. What is it?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bog, plant layers · What happens: have, rot, burn, dry, be · To what, where: plant layers
This is test 9 · ★ 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: A bog in Ireland has brown, squashy, rotting plant layers that burn when dried.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bog | det |
| 2 | bog | bog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bog | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 has | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 squashy | punct |
| 8 | squashy | squashy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brown | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rotting | punct |
| 10 | rotting | rot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 has | advcl |
| 11 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 layers | compound |
| 12 | layers | layer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rotting | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 burn | nsubj |
| 14 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 layers | acl:relcl |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 dried | advmod |
| 16 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 burn | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a bog in Ireland | brown property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rot | gerund | a bog in Ireland not said here | plant layers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burn | present | plant layers | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dry | participle | plant layers not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | bog | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Oil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Chalk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Peat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peat | peat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Coal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coal | coal | 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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