Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / World / Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mo… / t6

Test 6 · ★★★ · Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts

Seattle is on the Pacific coast, and Minneapolis, about as far north, lies far inland. Which is most likely true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Seattle · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: Pacific coast

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts» 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: Seattle is on the Pacific coast, and Minneapolis, about as far north, lies far inland.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seattle	Seattle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 coast	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coast	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 coast	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coast	det
5	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 coast	compound
6	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Minneapolis	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Minneapolis	cc
9	Minneapolis	Minneapolis	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 coast	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lies	punct
11	about	about	ADV	_	14 north	advmod
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 far	advmod
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 north	advmod
14	north	north	ADV	_	16 lies	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lies	punct
16	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coast	conj
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 inland	advmod
18	inland	inland	ADV	_	16 lies	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 coast	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Seattle			the Pacific coast			tree rules
2	lie	present	Seattle not said here					inland, north property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Which is most likely true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 true	advmod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely, true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Both always have the same weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 have	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 weather	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weather	amod
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Both	the same weather				always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Patient

Option 2

Seattle never has winter at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seattle	Seattle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 has	advmod
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 winter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present	Seattle				winter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Seattle has a milder winter than Minneapolis

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seattle	Seattle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 winter	det
4	milder	mild	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 winter	amod
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 Minneapolis	case
7	Minneapolis	Minneapolis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 winter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Seattle				winter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Seattle has a colder winter than Minneapolis

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seattle	Seattle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 winter	det
4	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 winter	amod
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 Minneapolis	case
7	Minneapolis	Minneapolis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 winter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Seattle				winter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/50-why-the-earth-is-so/t6/