Test 7 · ★★ · The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to…

«the Himalayas are finished growing, they're old» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Himalayas · What happens: finish, grow, be · To what, where: Himalayas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	_	5 finished	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Himalayas	det
3	Himalayas	Himalaya	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 finished	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	aux:pass
5	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 old	advcl
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 finished	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 finished	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 old	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 true	csubj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 true	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	finish in a quote	present · passive		the Himalayas		tree rules
2	grow in a quote	gerund				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	Himalayas = himalaya		old property	tree rules
4	is	present			true 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.

The options

Option 1

They grow only when there is an earthquake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 is	advmod
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	advcl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 earthquake	det
8	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	They						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	a earthquake			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They are sinking slowly back into the sea a little every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sinking	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sinking	aux
3	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 sinking	advmod
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 sinking	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sinking	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sinking	obj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sinking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink back	present · progressive	They	a little		the sea	year	slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent little=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are still rising a little, as India keeps pushing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rising	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rising	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 rising	advmod
4	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rising	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 keeps	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 keeps	mark
9	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 keeps	nsubj
10	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rising	conj
11	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	rise	present · progressive	They	a little	still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	present	India			tree rules
3	push	gerund	India not said here			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They stopped growing millions of years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stopped	xcomp
4	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 growing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 millions	nmod
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 growing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	They						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	They not said here	millions of years				ago property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location million=Theme

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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