Test 13 · ★★ · Map reading puzzles

Ella says rivers flow towards the mountains. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ella, rivers · What happens: say, flow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Map reading puzzles» 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	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flow	nsubj
4	flow	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountains	det
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flow	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	2 says	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ella						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	flow	present	rivers					towards the mountains	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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, rivers flow up into the mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 flow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flow	nsubj
4	flow	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 flow	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 mountains	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountains	det
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow up	present	rivers			the mountains			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, rivers flow from higher land to lower land, away from the mountains

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 flow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flow	nsubj
4	flow	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 land	case
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 land	amod
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flow	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 land	amod
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flow	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 away	punct
12	away	away	ADV	_	4 flow	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 mountains	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mountains	det
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	present	rivers			higher land		to lower land; away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, the water is pulled by the peaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 pulled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulled	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pulled	aux:pass
6	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 peaks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 peaks	det
9	peaks	peak	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present · passive	the peaks	the water					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

No, rivers do not flow at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 flow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flow	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 flow	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 flow	advmod
6	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 flow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not flow	present · do-support	rivers			all			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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