Test 4 · ★★ · Seasons and tides
In a cartoon, a lake in the park has high and low tides like the sea. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: lake · What happens: have, be · To what, where: high tides, cartoon
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Seasons and tides» of the physics 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: In a cartoon, a lake in the park has high and low tides like the sea.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 park | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 park | det |
| 9 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lake | nmod |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tides | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 low | cc |
| 13 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 high | conj |
| 14 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tides | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a lake in the park | high tides | a cartoon | like the sea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tide=Patient |
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: What's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Lakes have bigger tides than the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 tides | amod |
| 4 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Lakes | bigger tides | than the sea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tide=Patient |
Option 2
Nothing, all water has big tides
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 has | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tides | amod |
| 7 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Nothing | big tides | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tide=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A lake is far too small to show tides you can see
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lake | det |
| 2 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 small | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 small | cop |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 small | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 small | advmod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 show | mark |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 small | advcl |
| 9 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 show | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tides | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a lake | far, small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | a lake not said here | tides | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tide=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see | can | you | tides not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tide=Stimulus |
Option 4
Lakes have tides only at night, when the Moon is out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 night | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 out | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 out | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Moon | det |
| 10 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 out | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 out | cop |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 have | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Lakes | tides | night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tide=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | the Moon | out property | tree rules |
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