Test 13 · ★ · Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped

Ava says most lakes are salty like the sea. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ava, most lakes · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 lakes	amod
4	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 salty	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 salty	cop
6	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 salty	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	2 says	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ava						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	most lakes					like the sea; salty 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, most lakes have fresh water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 lakes	amod
4	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	most lakes	fresh water					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 2

Yes, lakes are pieces of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 pieces	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pieces	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pieces	cop
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pieces	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	lakes	pieces				of the sea	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, all lakes are salty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 salty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 lakes	det
4	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 salty	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 salty	cop
6	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all lakes					salty property	tree rules

Option 4

No, lakes have no water in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 winter	case
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	lakes	no water			winter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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