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Test 6 · ★ · Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped

A deep valley has steep sides like the letter V and a stream at the bottom. What made it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deep valley · What happens: have, make · To what, where: steep sides, valley

This is test 6 · ★ 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 deep valley has steep sides like the letter V and a stream at the bottom.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 valley	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 valley	amod
3	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sides	amod
6	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 V	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 V	det
9	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 V	compound
10	V	v	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sides	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stream	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stream	det
13	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 V	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 bottom	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bottom	det
16	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stream	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a deep valley	steep sides				like the letter V and a stream at the bottom	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient

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 made it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		valley					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A volcano that blew the rock away

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
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 volcano	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 blew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow away	past	a volcano	the rock				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent rock=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The stream, wearing the rock away over thousands of years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stream	det
2	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wearing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stream	punct
4	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wearing	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 wearing	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 thousands	case
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wearing	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 years	case
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thousands	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear away	gerund	the stream	the rock		thousands of years		away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent rock=Source

Option 3

An earthquake that split the ground wide open in a single day

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	4 split	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 split	nsubj
4	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	obj
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 open	advmod
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 split	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 day	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	a earthquake	the ground			day	open property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient

Option 4

People who dug it to make a road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dug	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 dug	nsubj
3	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dug	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dug	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past	People	it					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive	People not said here	a road					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset road=Product

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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