Test 10 · ★ · Water, deserts and the shape of the land

Alfie's uncle remembers a big quake on a hot day. Why doesn't that prove "earthquake weather"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: uncle · What happens: remember, not prove · To what, where: big quake, earthquake weather

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 16 «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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: Alfie's uncle remembers a big quake on a hot day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Alfie	case
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remembers	nsubj
4	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 quake	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quake	amod
7	quake	quake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remembers	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 day	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remembers	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remembers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	Alfie's uncle	a big quake			day		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent quake=Theme

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 doesn't that prove "earthquake weather"?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 prove	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 prove	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 prove	advmod
4	that	that	ADV	_	5 prove	advmod
5	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 weather	punct
7	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weather	compound
8	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prove	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 weather	punct
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 prove	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not prove	present · do-support		earthquake weather				that property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The hot weather warms the rock deep down and that makes it crack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 weather	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weather	amod
3	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warms	nsubj
4	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warms	obj
7	deep	deep	ADV	_	8 down	advmod
8	down	down	ADV	_	4 warms	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 makes	cc
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 makes	nsubj
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warms	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 makes	obj
13	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	warm	present	the hot weather	the rock	down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rock=Patient
2	make	present	that	rock		tree rules
3	crack	infinitive	rock not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One hot day is a coincidence; quakes come on every kind of day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coincidence	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coincidence	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coincidence	det
6	coincidence	coincidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
8	quakes	quake	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coincidence	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 kind	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 kind	det
12	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 day	case
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	One hot day	a coincidence					tree rules
2	come	present	quakes			every kind of day			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on kind=Location

Option 3

It proves it, one example is enough

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 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 enough	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 example	nummod
6	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enough	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 enough	cop
8	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It	it					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	one example					enough property	tree rules

Option 4

Quakes only happen in summer anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quakes	quake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happen	advmod
3	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 happen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Quakes				summer	anyway property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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