Test 5 · ★ · Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped

Why are earthquakes and volcanoes common in the same places?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: earthquakes · What happens: be · To what, where: same places

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 common	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 common	cop
3	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 common	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 volcanoes	cc
5	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 earthquakes	conj
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 places	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 places	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 places	amod
10	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 common	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 common	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	earthquakes and volcanoes			the same places		common 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

Both are caused by very strong winds blowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 caused	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	aux:pass
3	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 winds	case
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 winds	amod
7	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caused	obl
8	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 winds	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present · passive	strong winds	Both					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
2	blow	gerund	strong winds not said here						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Both happen only near big rivers and lakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 happen	nsubj
2	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 rivers	advmod
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 rivers	case
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rivers	amod
6	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happen	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lakes	cc
8	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rivers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Both			big rivers and lakes			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near river=Location

Option 3

Both happen only in very cold countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 happen	nsubj
2	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 countries	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 countries	case
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 countries	amod
7	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Both			cold countries			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in country=Location

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

Both happen mostly where plates meet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 happen	nsubj
2	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	6 meet	advmod
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 meet	advmod
5	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 meet	nsubj
6	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 happen	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Both						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	present	plates					mostly property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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