Test 9 · ★ · Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped

Where does a river finish its journey?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: river · What happens: finish, journey · To what, where: journey

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 finish	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 finish	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finish	nsubj
5	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 journey	nmod:poss
7	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finish	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 finish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	present · do-support	a river	river's journey					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality journey=Eventuality
2	journey		river						nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

Where the first bridge crosses it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 crosses	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 bridge	amod
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crosses	nsubj
5	crosses	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crosses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	present	the first bridge	it					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

At its source, high in the mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 source	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 source	nmod:poss
3	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 high	punct
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 source	amod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mountains	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountains	det
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 high	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

At the deepest point of its valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 point	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 point	det
3	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 point	amod
4	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 valley	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 valley	nmod:poss
7	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 point	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point			point's valley					nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

At its mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 mouth	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mouth	nmod:poss
3	mouth	mouth	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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