Test 13 · ★ · The water cycle

Mia says most of Earth's water is fresh water from rivers. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, most · What happens: say, be · To what, where: fresh water, rivers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 water	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 water	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Earth	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 most	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 water	cop
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 rivers	case
12	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 water	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 water	punct
14	right	right	ADV	_	2 says	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mia						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	most of Earth's water	fresh water		rivers			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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, most is salty seawater in the oceans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 seawater	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 seawater	amod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seawater	cop
5	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seawater	amod
6	seawater	seawater	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 oceans	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 oceans	det
9	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seawater	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		most salty seawater		the oceans			tree rules

Option 2

Yes, and the oceans are just a small part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 part	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 part	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oceans	det
5	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 part	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 part	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 part	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 part	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 part	amod
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the oceans	a small part					tree rules

Option 3

No, most is frozen in the clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 frozen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 frozen	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 frozen	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frozen	aux:pass
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 clouds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clouds	det
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · passive		most		the clouds			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

Option 4

Yes, rivers hold most of the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 hold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hold	punct
3	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	nsubj
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 hold	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	rivers	most of the water					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme

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