Test 4 · ★ · The British Isles and the United Kingdom

Why are Britain's mountains mostly in the north and west?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mountains · What happens: be · To what, where: north

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 8 «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mountains	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Britain	case
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Why	nsubj
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	9 north	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 north	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 north	det
9	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 west	cc
11	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 north	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Britain's mountains			the north and west		why 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

The sea pushed the land up in the west, while the east sank under the weight of its cities

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	nsubj
3	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	3 pushed	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 west	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 west	det
9	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sank	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 sank	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 east	det
13	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sank	nsubj
14	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pushed	parataxis
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 weight	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 weight	det
17	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sank	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cities	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cities	nmod:poss
20	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 weight	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push up	past	the sea	the land		the west			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent land=Theme in west=Trajectory
2	sink	past	the east			the weight of east's cities			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The hard old rocks there resisted wear, while the south-east is softer, lower land

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rocks	det
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rocks	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rocks	amod
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 resisted	advmod
6	resisted	resist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wear	amod
7	wear	wear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rocks	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 softer	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 softer	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 east	det
11	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 east	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 south	punct
13	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 softer	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 softer	cop
15	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 rocks	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 land	punct
17	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 land	amod
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 softer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resist	participle				there			tree rules
2	is	present	the south east					lower land obl; soft property	tree rules

Option 3

Snow built them up over the winters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 built	compound:prt
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 winters	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 winters	det
7	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build up	past	Snow	them = they			winter		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer they=Patient

Option 4

Kings piled up earth in the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Kings	acl
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 piled	compound:prt
4	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piled	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 north	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 north	det
7	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pile up	participle	Kings not said here	earth		the north			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in north=Destination

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