Test 10 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost
A giant open-pit mine is visible from space. What does it leave behind besides the hole?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: giant pit mine, mine · What happens: be, leave behind · To what, where: space
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» 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 giant open-pit mine is visible from space.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mine | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mine | amod |
| 3 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pit | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
| 5 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mine | compound |
| 6 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 visible | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 visible | cop |
| 8 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 space | case |
| 10 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 visible | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 visible | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a giant pit mine | space | visible property | tree rules |
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 does it leave behind besides the hole?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 leave | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 4 leave | advmod |
| 6 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 8 hole | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hole | det |
| 8 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave behind | present · do-support | mine | besides the hole; behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Nothing at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A clean lake of drinking water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lake | det |
| 2 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lake | amod |
| 3 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 drinking | mark |
| 5 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 lake | acl |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drinking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | gerund | a clean lake not said here | water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Mountains of waste rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 rock | case |
| 3 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rock | compound |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mountains | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A new forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 forest | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 forest | amod |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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