Test 3 · ★ · Volcanoes and earthquakes up close

Which is true about predicting earthquakes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, predict · To what, where: earthquakes

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 62 «Volcanoes and earthquakes up close» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 predicting	mark
5	predicting	predict	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 true	advcl
6	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 predicting	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	predict	gerund		earthquakes					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot earthquake=Topic

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

Scientists can tell the exact hour weeks ahead of every quake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 weeks	det
5	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weeks	amod
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weeks	compound
7	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obl:unmarked
8	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	3 tell	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 quake	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 quake	det
11	quake	quake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ahead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	Scientists				week	ahead property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Scientists know where they are likely, but not the exact day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 likely	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 likely	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 likely	cop
6	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 know	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 day	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 day	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Scientists				day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	Scientists = scientist					likely property	tree rules

Option 3

Earthquakes come only at night, so they are very easy to predict

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 come	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 easy	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 easy	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 easy	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 easy	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 easy	advmod
11	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 come	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 predict	mark
13	predict	predict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 easy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Earthquakes	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Earthquakes = earthquake		easy property	tree rules
3	predict	to-infinitive	Earthquakes = earthquake not said here			vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Animals always warn us a day before, so we can simply watch them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warn	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 warn	advmod
3	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 warn	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warn	obl:unmarked
7	before	before	ADV	_	3 warn	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 watch	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 watch	advmod
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 watch	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 watch	aux
12	simply	simply	ADV	_	13 watch	advmod
13	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 warn	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	Animals		us		day	always, before property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
2	watch	can	we	Animals = animal				simply property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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