Test 2 · ★ · Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped

Which change in the land happens fastest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: change · What happens: happen · To what, where: fastest

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 change	det
2	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happens	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 land	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	nmod
6	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 happens	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	which change in the land	fastest					vn occur-48.3-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Rain wearing away a hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Rain	acl
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 wearing	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear away	gerund	Rain not said here	a hill				away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hill=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

An earthquake shaking the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 earthquake	det
2	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 earthquake	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund	a earthquake not said here	the ground					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ground=Patient

Option 3

A river cutting a deep valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 river	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 valley	det
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 valley	amod
6	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cutting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund	a river not said here	a deep valley					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset valley=Product

Option 4

Plates pushing up a mountain range

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Plates	acl
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 pushing	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 range	det
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 range	compound
6	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push up	gerund	Plates not said here	a mountain range					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent range=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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