Test 4 · ★ · The water cycle

Which is true about rain?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 rain	case
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about rain; true property	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

It comes only from rivers and lakes

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 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 rivers	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 rivers	case
5	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lakes	cc
7	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rivers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	It			rivers and lakes			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from river=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is fresh water, even when it came from the sea

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	4 water	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 water	cop
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
6	even	even	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 water	conj
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 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	fresh water					tree rules
2	come	past	water			the sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location

Option 3

It is made brand new inside clouds

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 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	brand	brand	ADV	_	5 new	advmod
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 clouds	case
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		It		clouds		new property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

It is salty, because it all came from the sea in the first place

The tree, 14 words

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 salty	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 salty	cop
3	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 it	det
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 salty	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 place	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 place	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 place	amod
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					salty property	tree rules
2	come	past	it			the sea		in the first place	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location

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