Test 11 · ★ · The water cycle

how come rain isn't salty if it comes from the sea

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: come rain, rain · What happens: not be, come · To what, where: sea

This is test 11 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 come	advmod
2	come	come	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rain	amod
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 salty	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 salty	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 salty	advmod
6	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 comes	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 salty	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	come rain					salty property	tree rules
2	come a condition, not said to happen	present	rain			the sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location

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 clouds filter the salt out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clouds	det
2	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 filter	nsubj
3	filter	filter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 salt	det
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 filter	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	3 filter	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	filter out	present	the clouds	the salt					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent salt=Initial_Location

Option 2

The rain is salty, we just can't taste it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rain	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 salty	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 salty	cop
4	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 taste	punct
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 taste	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 taste	advmod
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 taste	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 taste	advmod
10	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 salty	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 taste	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the rain					salty property	tree rules
2	not taste	can	we	rain					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

Option 3

The wind blows the salt away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blows	nsubj
3	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 salt	det
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blows	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 blows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow away	present	the wind	the salt				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent salt=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The salt stays behind when seawater evaporates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 salt	det
2	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stays	nsubj
3	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADV	_	3 stays	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 evaporates	mark
6	seawater	seawater	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 evaporates	nsubj
7	evaporates	evaporate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stays	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the salt					behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	evaporate	present	seawater						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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