Test 4 · ★★ · Wind, sun and other clean energy

«tides are just the wind pushing the sea about» What is the best correction?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tides, best correction · What happens: push, be · To what, where: sea

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 33 «Wind, sun and other clean energy» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 pushing	punct
2	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pushing	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pushing	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 pushing	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pushing	nsubj
7	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pushing	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	7 pushing	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 pushing	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 pushing	obl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 What	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 correction	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 correction	amod
16	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 What	nsubj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pushing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push in a quote	present · progressive	tides	the sea					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme
2	is a	present	the best correction						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 · ✓ the right answer

Tides are caused mainly by the Moon pulling the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caused	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	aux:pass
3	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	3 caused	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Moon	det
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obl:agent
8	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 Moon	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present · passive	the Moon	Tides				mainly property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
2	pull	gerund	the Moon not said here	the sea					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Right, the wind pushes the sea in and out every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 pushes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	nsubj
5	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	obj
8	in	in	ADV	_	5 pushes	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 out	cc
10	out	out	ADV	_	8 in	conj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	the wind	the sea			day		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme

Option 3

Tides come from whales and big fish all swimming together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 whales	case
4	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fish	cc
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whales	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 swimming	det
9	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
10	together	together	ADV	_	2 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Tides	all swimming				from whales and big fish; together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from whale=Initial_Location

Option 4

Tides come from rain filling the sea up and then draining away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 rain	case
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
5	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 come	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 filling	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 filling	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 draining	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 draining	advmod
11	draining	drain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 filling	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 draining	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Tides		rain			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from rain=Initial_Location
2	fill up	gerund	Tides not said here	the sea				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient
3	drain away	gerund	Tides not said here			then	away property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source

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