Test 11 · ★★ · The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to…

«yo the Amazon's a website not a river» What would you say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo, you · What happens: be, say · To what, where: website, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 61 «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 yo	punct
2	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 website	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Amazon	det
4	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 website	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 website	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 website	det
7	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 river	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 website	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 river	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 say	obj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 say	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 river	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 website	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	yo	a website				a river nmod	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	would	you	a river					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

It is a small river in England named after the shop

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	5 river	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 river	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 river	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 river	amod
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 England	case
7	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 river	nmod
8	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 river	acl
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 shop	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shop	det
11	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a small river		England			tree rules
2	name	participle		a small river not said here			after the shop		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is only a website, the river was in a film

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	5 website	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 website	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 website	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 website	det
5	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 film	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 film	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 film	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 film	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 film	det
12	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 website	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a website and a film					tree rules
2	is	past	the river			a film			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's a real river in South America too, the biggest on Earth by water

The tree, 15 words

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	5 river	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 river	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 river	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 river	amod
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 America	case
7	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 America	compound
8	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 river	nmod
9	too	too	ADV	_	5 river	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 biggest	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 biggest	det
12	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 river	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 Earth	case
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 biggest	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 water	case
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 biggest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a real river		South America			tree rules
2	be					Earth		by water	tree rules

Option 4

It is a desert in Australia

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 desert	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 desert	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 desert	det
4	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Australia	case
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 desert	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a desert		Australia			tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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