Test 11 · ★★ · The United States

Settlers crossing west in wagons met which mountains as the hardest barrier?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Settlers · What happens: cross, meet · To what, where: wagons, mountains

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 9 «The United States» 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	Settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 met	nsubj
2	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Settlers	acl
3	west	west	ADV	_	2 crossing	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 wagons	case
5	wagons	wagon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crossing	obl
6	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 mountains	det
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 met	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 barrier	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 barrier	det
11	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 barrier	amod
12	barrier	barrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund	Settlers not said here			wagons		west property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	Settlers	which mountains				as the hardest barrier	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Co-Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

The high, young Rocky Mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mountains	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Mountains	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 high	punct
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Mountains	amod
5	Rocky	Rocky	PROPN	_	6 Mountains	compound
6	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The low Appalachians

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Appalachians	det
2	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Appalachians	amod
3	Appalachians	Appalachian	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The hills of Rhode Island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hills	det
2	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Island	case
4	Rhode	Rhode	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Island	compound
5	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hills	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The Great Plains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Plains	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Plains	amod
3	Plains	Plain	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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