Test 9 · ★ · Islands, seas and lakes

What lesson does the Aral Sea teach about taking water from rivers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lesson, Aral Sea · What happens: do, teach, take · To what, where: water, rivers

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 lesson	det
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sea	det
5	Aral	Aral	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sea	compound
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 teach	nsubj
7	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	ccomp
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 taking	mark
9	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 teach	advcl
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taking	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 rivers	case
12	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taking	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	present	what lesson			tree rules
2	teach speech: other	present	the Aral Sea			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	gerund	the Aral Sea not said here	water	rivers	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from river=Initial_Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

Rivers always refill a lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 refill	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 refill	advmod
3	refill	refill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lake	det
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 refill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refill	present	Rivers	a lake				always property	tree rules

Option 2

Deserts make more rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 rain	amod
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Deserts	more rain					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rain=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Take too much and a whole sea can die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Take	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 die	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sea	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 die	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 die	aux
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	much					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme
2	die	can	a whole sea						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Lakes grow when farms use water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 use	mark
4	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	advcl
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Lakes						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	present	farms	water					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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