Test 8 · ★★ · Phases, eclipses and tides
You go rockpooling at the Bristol Channel at a full Moon. What tide range should you expect?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, tide range · What happens: go, rockpool, expect · To what, where: Bristol Channel
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Phases, eclipses and tides» of the space 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: You go rockpooling at the Bristol Channel at a full Moon.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 go | nsubj |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rockpooling | rockpool | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 go | xcomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Channel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Channel | det |
| 6 | Bristol | Bristol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Channel | compound |
| 7 | Channel | Channel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rockpooling | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Moon | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Moon | det |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Moon | amod |
| 11 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rockpooling | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | You | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | rockpool | gerund | You not said here | the Bristol Channel | at a full Moon | 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.
Sentence 2: What tide range should you expect?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 expect | obj |
| 2 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 range | compound |
| 3 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 expect | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 expect | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 expect | nsubj |
| 6 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 expect | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | should | tide range | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1
No tide at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 tide | det |
| 2 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 tide | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A very big one, because it is a spring tide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 big | advmod |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tide | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 tide | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tide | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tide | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tide | det |
| 10 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tide | compound |
| 11 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a spring tide | tree rules |
Option 3
The same as on any other day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 same | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 day | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 same | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A very small one, because it is a neap tide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 small | advmod |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tide | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 tide | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tide | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tide | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tide | det |
| 10 | neap | neap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tide | amod |
| 11 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a neap tide | tree rules |
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