Test 7 · ★ · The British Isles and the United Kingdom

How can Loch Ness hold so much water when it is so narrow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Loch, water · What happens: hold, be · To what, where: much water

This is test 7 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hold	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	aux
3	Loch	Loch	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nsubj
4	Ness	Ness	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Loch	flat
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obj
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 narrow	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 narrow	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 narrow	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 narrow	advmod
13	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hold	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	can	Loch	much water					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	is	present	water					narrow 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 · ← Mova's choice

It is fed by the sea through a tunnel

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	3 fed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	aux:pass
3	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fed	obl
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 tunnel	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tunnel	det
9	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present · passive	the sea	It		a tunnel			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is very long and very deep

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 long	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 deep	cc
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 deep	advmod
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					long property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 3

It is much wider underground than on top

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 wider	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wider	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 wider	advmod
4	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	underground	underground	ADV	_	4 wider	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 top	case
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wider	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					than top; underground, wide property	tree rules

Option 4

Its water is heavier than sea water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 water	nmod:poss
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heavier	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavier	cop
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 water	compound
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heavier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its water					than sea water; heavy property	tree rules

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