Test 5 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost
A river below an old mine runs orange and fish have died. What most likely happened?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: river, fish · What happens: run, die, happen · To what, where: orange
This is test 5 · ★★ 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 river below an old mine runs orange and fish have died.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 runs | nsubj |
| 3 | below | below | ADP | _ | 6 mine | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mine | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mine | amod |
| 6 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 river | nmod |
| 7 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 runs | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 died | cc |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 died | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 died | aux |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 runs | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 runs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | a river below a old mine | orange | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme orange=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | die | present · perfect | fish | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 most likely happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 likely | advmod |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | participle | likely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The sun dried the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dried | nsubj |
| 3 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dried | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past | the sun | the river | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient river=Result |
Option 2
The fish turned the water orange
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fish | det |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 orange | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 orange | compound |
| 6 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the fish | the water orange | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent orange=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Rain makes rivers orange every year in the autumn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 autumn | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 autumn | det |
| 9 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Rain | rivers | autumn; year | orange property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset river=Product |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Acid and toxic metals from the mine poisoned it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poisoned | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 metals | cc |
| 3 | toxic | toxic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 metals | amod |
| 4 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Acid | conj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mine | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mine | det |
| 7 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 metals | nmod |
| 8 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 poisoned | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison | past | Acid and toxic metals from the mine | mine | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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