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Test 8 · ★★ · The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantin…

The Sea Rat rests in «the great olive-woods» high above the sea. Why do olives grow well there?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sea Rat, olives · What happens: rest, grow · To what, where: great olive woods

This is test 8 · ★★ 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 Sea Rat rests in «the great olive-woods» high above the sea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rat	det
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rat	compound
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rests	nsubj
4	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	11 woods	case
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woods	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woods	amod
9	olive	olive	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 woods	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 olive	punct
11	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rests	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 woods	punct
13	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 sea	advmod
14	above	above	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rests	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rests	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	present	the Sea Rat			the great olive woods		above the sea	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in wood=Location

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: Why do olives grow well there?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 grow	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
3	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 grow	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · do-support	olives			there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

It snows there for most of the year, which olives love

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	2 snows	nsubj
2	snows	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 snows	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 most	case
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 snows	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 most	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 love	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 love	obj
11	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 love	nsubj
12	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 year	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snow	present	It			there		for most of the year	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	love	present	olives	the year					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mediterranean summers are hot and dry and winters mild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mediterranean	mediterranean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 summers	amod
2	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hot	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dry	cc
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hot	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mild	cc
8	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mild	nsubj
9	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mediterranean summers					hot property	tree rules
2	be		Mediterranean summers not said here						tree rules
3	be		winters						tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Olives grow only in deep shade under other trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	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	in	in	ADP	_	6 shade	case
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shade	amod
6	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Olives			deep shade		under other trees	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location

Option 4

It rains every single day, so the trees never dry out

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	2 rains	nsubj
2	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rains	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dry	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 dry	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dry	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 dry	advmod
11	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rains	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 dry	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	present	It				day		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	not dry out	present	the trees						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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