Test 10 · ★ · Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped

how'd a river make a whole valley, it's just water

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: river · What happens: make, be · To what, where: whole valley, water

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 43 «Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped» 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	5 make	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 valley	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 valley	amod
8	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 water	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 water	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 water	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 water	advmod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	infinitive	a river	a whole valley					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset valley=Product
2	is a	present	river	water					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

Over thousands of years the sand and stones it carries cut the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Over	over	ADP	_	2 thousands	case
2	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carries	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 years	case
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thousands	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sand	det
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thousands	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stones	cc
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thousands	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carries	nsubj
10	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	cut	cut	ADP	_	13 land	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	sand			thousands of years and the sand and stones		cut the land	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It floods once and digs it out

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 floods	nsubj
2	floods	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 floods	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 digs	cc
5	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 floods	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 digs	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 digs	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	present	It					once property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	dig out	present		it					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

The valley was there and the river found it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 valley	det
2	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 valley	acl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 river	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 valley	conj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the valley and the river not said here					there property	tree rules
2	find	past	the valley and the river	river					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Fish dig the valley as they swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dig	nsubj
2	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 valley	det
4	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dig	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 swim	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 swim	nsubj
7	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dig	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	present	Fish	the valley					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent valley=Theme
2	swim	present	Fish						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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