Test 3 · ★ · Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped
A river is very muddy where it enters the sea, and the land there is flat and grows bigger every year. What is forming?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: river, land · What happens: be, enter, grow, form · To what, where: sea
This is test 3 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A river is very muddy where it enters the sea, and the land there is flat and grows bigger every year.
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 | 5 muddy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 muddy | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 muddy | advmod |
| 5 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 enters | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 enters | nsubj |
| 8 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 muddy | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enters | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flat | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flat | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flat | nsubj |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 land | acl:relcl |
| 17 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 muddy | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 grows | cc |
| 19 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 muddy | conj |
| 20 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 grows | xcomp |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 year | det |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grows | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 muddy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a river | muddy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | present | river | the sea | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Destination | ||||
| 3 | be | present | the land not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | the land | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | grow | present | a river not said here | year | big 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.
Sentence 2: What is forming?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 forming | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forming | aux |
| 3 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 forming | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present · progressive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A glacier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 glacier | det |
| 2 | glacier | glacier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A delta
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 delta | det |
| 2 | delta | delta | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A volcano
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 volcano | det |
| 2 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A mountain range
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 range | det |
| 2 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 range | compound |
| 3 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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