Test 12 · ★ · Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped

my brother says mountains just popped up quickly ages ago. true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, mountains · What happens: say, pop up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 popped	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 popped	advmod
6	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 popped	compound:prt
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 popped	advmod
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ago	obl:unmarked
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 popped	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pop up	past	mountains					ago, quickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

No, they are slowly sinking into the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 sinking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sinking	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sinking	aux
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 sinking	advmod
6	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	present · progressive	they			the sea		slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yes, volcanoes made all of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 volcanoes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 made	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	volcanoes	all					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset all=Product

Option 3

Yes, they popped up in one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 popped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 popped	nsubj
4	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 popped	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 popped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pop up	past	they				day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they rise slowly as plates push together for millions of years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 rise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rise	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rise	nsubj
4	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 rise	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 push	mark
7	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 push	nsubj
8	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rise	advcl
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 push	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 millions	case
11	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 push	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 years	case
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 millions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	they					slowly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	push together	present	plates					for millions of years; together property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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