Test 10 · ★ · The water cycle

where does rain even come from

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: come

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 come	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · do-support							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice

Water that falls off the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 falls	nsubj
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Water	acl:relcl
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 Moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	present	Water	the Moon					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient moon=Extent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Water that evaporated, rose and condensed into clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evaporated	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 evaporated	nsubj
3	evaporated	evaporate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct
5	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 evaporated	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 condensed	cc
7	condensed	condense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 evaporated	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 clouds	case
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 condensed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	evaporate	past	Water		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	rise	past	Water not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	condense	past	Water not said here	clouds	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Water that clouds pull up from deep underground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 pull	nsubj
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pull	nsubj
4	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Water	acl:relcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 pull	compound:prt
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 deep	case
7	deep	deep	ADV	_	8 underground	advmod
8	underground	underground	ADV	_	4 pull	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	present	Water					underground property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

New water the sky makes every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	obj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	New water				day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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