Test 1 · ★ · The water cycle
A raindrop falls into a river. What could happen to it next?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: raindrop · What happens: fall, happen · To what, where: river
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 14 «The water cycle» of the world 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: A raindrop falls into a river.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 raindrop | det |
| 2 | raindrop | raindrop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falls | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 falls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | a raindrop | into a river result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result |
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 could happen to it next?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happen | obl |
| 6 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 happen | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | river | next property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It stays in that river for ever
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 stays | nsubj |
| 2 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 river | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stays | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 ever | case |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 stays | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | It | that river | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It flows to the sea, evaporates and falls as rain again
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 flows | nsubj |
| 2 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flows | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 evaporates | punct |
| 7 | evaporates | evaporate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 flows | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 falls | cc |
| 9 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 evaporates | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 rain | case |
| 11 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 falls | obl |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 falls | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | It | to the sea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | evaporate | present | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | fall | present | again | as rain | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It slowly turns into salt
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 | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 turns | advmod |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 salt | case |
| 5 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | It | salt | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into salt=Trajectory |
Option 4
It vanishes, and brand new water is made somewhere else instead
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 vanishes | nsubj |
| 2 | vanishes | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 5 | brand | brand | ADV | _ | 6 new | advmod |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 vanishes | conj |
| 10 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 made | advmod |
| 11 | else | else | ADV | _ | 10 somewhere | advmod |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 2 vanishes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | present | It | instead property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present · passive | new water | somewhere property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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