Test 6 · ★ · Islands, seas and lakes

Why do people float so easily in the Dead Sea?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: float · To what, where: Dead Sea

This is test 6 · ★ 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 float	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 float	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 float	nsubj
4	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 easily	advmod
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 float	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 Sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sea	det
9	Dead	Dead	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Sea	compound
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 float	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 float	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present · do-support	people			the Dead Sea		easily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory

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 lake is very shallow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lake	det
2	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shallow	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shallow	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 shallow	advmod
5	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the lake					shallow property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The water is warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warm	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	cop
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

There are no waves at all to pull you under

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 waves	det
4	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 waves	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pull	mark
8	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 waves	acl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 pull	obj
10	under	under	ADP	_	8 pull	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	no waves at all			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull under	to-infinitive	no waves at all not said here	you					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its very salty water is denser than normal water

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	4 water	nmod:poss
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 salty	advmod
3	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denser	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 denser	cop
6	denser	dense	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denser	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its salty water					than normal water; dense property	tree rules

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