Test 9 · ★ · The water cycle
Snow on a mountain melts in spring. Where does the water go?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Snow, water · What happens: melt, go
This is test 9 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Snow on a mountain melts in spring.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 melts | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 mountain | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mountain | det |
| 4 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snow | nmod |
| 5 | melts | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 spring | case |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 melts | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 melts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | present | Snow on a mountain | spring | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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.
Sentence 2: Where does the water go?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 go | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · do-support | the water | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Straight up into outer space
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 up | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 space | case |
| 4 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 space | amod |
| 5 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 up | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Into streams and rivers, and on towards the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 2 streams | case |
| 2 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rivers | cc |
| 4 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 streams | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sea | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sea | cc |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 streams | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Into the rock, where it stays for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 3 rock | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rock | det |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stays | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rock | punct |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 stays | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stays | nsubj |
| 7 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 ever | case |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 stays | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | rock | the rock | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
It turns straight back into snow
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 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 back | advmod |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 turns | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 snow | case |
| 6 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | It | snow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into snow=Trajectory |
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