Test 2 · ★★ · The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantin…
The Rat and Otter explore «the wide uplands» where small streams feed their River. What are those streams?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat, small streams, streams · What happens: explore, feed, be · To what, where: wide uplands, River
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 62 «The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel» 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: The Rat and Otter explore «the wide uplands» where small streams feed their River.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 explore | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Otter | cc |
| 4 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rat | conj |
| 5 | explore | explore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 uplands | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 uplands | det |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 uplands | amod |
| 9 | uplands | upland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 explore | obl |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 uplands | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 feed | advmod |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 streams | amod |
| 13 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 feed | nsubj |
| 14 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 uplands | acl:relcl |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 River | nmod:poss |
| 16 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 feed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 explore | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explore | present | the Rat and Otter | the wide uplands | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feed | present | small streams | streams's River | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Recipient |
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 are those streams?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 streams | det |
| 4 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that streams | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Weirs and mill-races
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weirs | weir | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 races | cc |
| 3 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 races | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 mill | punct |
| 5 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Weirs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Tributaries
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tributaries | tributary | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Locks and sluices
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sluices | cc |
| 3 | sluices | sluice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Locks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Estuaries
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Estuaries | estuary | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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