Test 8 · ★★ · The United States
What heats the water that shoots out of Yellowstone's geysers?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: water · What happens: heat, shoot · To what, where: water, geysers
This is test 8 · ★★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 heats | nsubj |
| 2 | heats | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heats | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 shoots | nsubj |
| 6 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 water | acl:relcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 geysers | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 geysers | case |
| 9 | Yellowstone | Yellowstone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 geysers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Yellowstone | case |
| 11 | geysers | geyser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shoots | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 heats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heat | present | the water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument water=Patient | |||||
| 2 | shoot | present | the water | Yellowstone's geysers | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent out geyser=Destination |
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
Hot springs that flow in from the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 springs | amod |
| 2 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 flow | nsubj |
| 4 | flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 springs | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 flow | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | Hot springs | the sea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Burning coal under the park
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Burning | obj |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 park | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 park | det |
| 5 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Burning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | coal | the park | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme |
Option 3
The sunshine on the lakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sunshine | det |
| 2 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 lakes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lakes | det |
| 5 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sunshine | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Hot rock above a volcanic hotspot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rock | amod |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | above | above | ADP | _ | 6 hotspot | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hotspot | det |
| 5 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hotspot | amod |
| 6 | hotspot | hotspot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rock | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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