Test 9 · ★ · Volcanoes and earthquakes up close
A mountain has no record of ever erupting and its crater is worn away and covered by forest. Which word fits it best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mountain, record, word · What happens: have, erupt, wear away, cover, fit · To what, where: record, crater
This is test 9 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A mountain has no record of ever erupting and its crater is worn away and covered by forest.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mountain | det |
| 2 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 record | det |
| 5 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 erupting | mark |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 erupting | advmod |
| 8 | erupting | erupt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 record | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 worn | cc |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 crater | nmod:poss |
| 11 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 worn | aux:pass |
| 13 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 erupting | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 worn | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 covered | cc |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 worn | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 covered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a mountain | no record | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Patient | ||||
| 2 | erupt | gerund | no record not said here | ever | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wear away | present · passive | mountain's crater | away property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle | by forest | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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.
Sentence 2: Which word fits it best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fits | nsubj |
| 3 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fits | obj |
| 5 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 fits | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | which word | record | well property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Erupting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Erupting | erupt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erupt | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
About to erupt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 erupt | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 1 About | fixed |
| 3 | erupt | erupt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erupt | imperative | you not said here | about property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Active
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Extinct
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
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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