Exam question 3 · Seasons and tides

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises spring tides?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: spring tides

This is exam question 3 of lesson 40 «Seasons and tides» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tides	compound
10	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		spring tides				of the following statements; accurately 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

Tides originating from springs of fresh water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	originating	originate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Tides	acl
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 springs	case
4	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 originating	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 springs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	originate	gerund	Tides not said here				spring		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Tides occurring exclusively during the spring months, when the snows melt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 melt	nsubj
2	occurring	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Tides	acl
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 occurring	advmod
4	during	during	ADP	_	7 months	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 months	det
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 months	compound
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 occurring	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 melt	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 melt	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snows	det
11	snows	snow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 melt	nsubj
12	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	gerund	Tides not said here				month	exclusively property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	melt	present	Tides						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tides of the greatest range, occurring when the Sun and Moon act in line

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 occurring	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 range	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 range	det
4	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 range	amod
5	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tides	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 occurring	punct
7	occurring	occur	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 act	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sun	det
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 act	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Moon	cc
12	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Sun	conj
13	act	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 occurring	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 line	case
15	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 act	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	occur	gerund	Tides of the greatest range		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	act	present	the Sun and Moon	line	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tide		the greatest range		nom tide «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Tides of the least range, occurring at half Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 range	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 range	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 range	det
4	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 range	amod
5	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 occurring	punct
7	occurring	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 range	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 half	case
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 occurring	obl
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 occurring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	gerund	the least range not said here	Moon		half			tree rules

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