Exam question 4 · Volcanoes and earthquakes up close

Ascertain the cause by which a tsunami is most usually occasioned.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cause · What happens: ascertain, occasion · To what, where: cause, tsunami

This is exam question 4 of lesson 62 «Volcanoes and earthquakes up close» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cause	det
3	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 occasioned	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tsunami	det
7	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 occasioned	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 occasioned	aux
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 occasioned	advmod
10	usually	usually	ADV	_	11 occasioned	advmod
11	occasioned	occasion	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cause	acl:relcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the cause					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
2	occasion	present · passive	the cause	a tsunami				usually property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

The pull of the Moon upon the tides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pull	det
2	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pull	nmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 tides	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tides	det
8	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pull	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull			the Moon				upon the tides	nom pull «act transitive»: of=patient upon=obl

Option 2

Heavy rainfall upon the coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rainfall	amod
2	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 coast	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coast	det
5	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rainfall	nmod

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

Option 3

A strong wind over the ocean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wind	det
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wind	amod
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 ocean	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ocean	det
6	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wind	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

An earthquake beneath the sea

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	root	root
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 earthquake	nmod

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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