Test 3 · ★ · Islands, seas and lakes

Why is it hard to count exactly how many islands Indonesia has?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Indonesia · What happens: be, count, have · To what, where: many islands

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 6 «Islands, seas and lakes» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hard	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hard	expl
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 count	mark
6	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	csubj
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 islands	amod
10	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 count	obj
11	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 has	nsubj
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 islands	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			hard property	tree rules
2	count	to-infinitive		many islands		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme
3	have	present	Indonesia	many islands not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=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.

The options

Option 1

The islands drift about and move every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 islands	det
2	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drift	nsubj
3	drift	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 drift	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 move	cc
6	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drift	conj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 move	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift	present	the islands					about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move	present	the islands not said here				year		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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

Some are tiny rocks and tides cover and uncover them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 rocks	det
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rocks	cop
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rocks	amod
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cover	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tides	cc
6	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rocks	conj
7	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 uncover	cc
9	uncover	uncover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cover	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 uncover	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		some tiny rocks and tides	tree rules
2	cover	present	some tiny rocks and tides		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	uncover	present	some tiny rocks and tides not said here	rocks = rock	tree rules

Option 3

Indonesia keeps the number secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 secret	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 secret	compound
5	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Indonesia	the number secret					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme

Option 4

Most of them are under ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 ice	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Most	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ice	cop
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 ice	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Most of them			ice			tree rules

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