Test 8 · ★ · The water cycle

Why could the water you drink today have been in a cloud long ago?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, water · What happens: drink, be · To what, where: water, cloud

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 ago	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 ago	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ago	nsubj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 drink	nsubj
6	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 water	acl:relcl
7	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obl:unmarked
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ago	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 ago	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 cloud	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cloud	det
12	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ago	obl
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 ago	advmod
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 ago	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	you	the water not said here			today		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	is	could · perfect	the water			a cloud		ago, long 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 · ✓ the right answer

Earth's water goes round and round the cycle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 water	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Earth	case
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 round	cc
7	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 goes	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cycle	det
9	cycle	cycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 round	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go round	present	Earth's water					round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	round	infinitive	Earth's water not said here	the cycle					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cycle=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tap water is made new in a factory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 factory	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 factory	det
8	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

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

Option 3

Clouds are made of new water each day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl:unmarked

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

Option 4

Water only lasts for one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasts	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 lasts	advmod
3	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	Water				day		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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