Test 4 · ★ · Islands, seas and lakes

How can Baikal be smaller in area than Lake Superior but hold more water?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Baikal · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: area, more water

This is test 4 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 smaller	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 smaller	aux
3	Baikal	Baikal	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 smaller	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 smaller	cop
5	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 area	case
7	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smaller	obl
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 Lake	case
9	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 area	nmod
10	Superior	Superior	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Lake	flat
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 hold	cc
12	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smaller	conj
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 water	amod
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 smaller	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	Baikal			area than Lake		small property	tree rules
2	hold	present	Baikal not said here	more water					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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 right answer

It is far deeper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 deeper	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deeper	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 deeper	advmod
4	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					deep, far property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It is fed by the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	aux:pass
3	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present · passive	the sea	It					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

It is measured in winter only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 measured	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 measured	aux:pass
3	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 measured	obl
6	only	only	ADV	_	3 measured	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	present · passive		It			winter		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value

Option 4

Its water is heavier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 water	nmod:poss
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heavier	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavier	cop
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its water					heavy property	tree rules

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