Test 4 · The United States and its states
A family drives from New York west to Colorado. Which do they cross before reaching the high Rockies?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: drive, cross, reach · To what, where: New York, high Rockies
This is test 4 of lesson 44 «The United States and its states» 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 family drives from New York west to Colorado.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drives | nsubj |
| 3 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 York | case |
| 5 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 York | flat |
| 6 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drives | obl |
| 7 | west | west | ADV | _ | 3 drives | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Colorado | case |
| 9 | Colorado | Colorado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 west | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | present | a family | New York | west property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from york=Trajectory |
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: Which do they cross before reaching the high Rockies?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 cross | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cross | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cross | nsubj |
| 4 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 reaching | mark |
| 6 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cross | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rockies | det |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Rockies | amod |
| 9 | Rockies | Rocky | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 reaching | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cross | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | present · do-support | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | reach | gerund | the high Rockies | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent rocky=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Great Lakes and then the whole of Alaska
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lakes | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lakes | amod |
| 3 | Lakes | Lake | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 whole | cc |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 whole | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 whole | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lakes | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Alaska | case |
| 9 | Alaska | Alaska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 whole | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Pacific coast and the islands of Hawaii
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coast | det |
| 2 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 coast | compound |
| 3 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 islands | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 islands | det |
| 6 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 coast | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Hawaii | case |
| 8 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 islands | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Gulf of Mexico and the Florida coast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Gulf | det |
| 2 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Mexico | case |
| 4 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Gulf | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 coast | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coast | det |
| 7 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 coast | compound |
| 8 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gulf | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Appalachians and the Great Plains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Appalachians | det |
| 2 | Appalachians | Appalachian | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Plains | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Plains | det |
| 5 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Plains | amod |
| 6 | Plains | Plain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Appalachians | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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