Exam question 3 · Rivers, lakes and the sea up close

Identify the principal cause of the tides upon the Earth's oceans.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, cause · To what, where: principal cause, tides

This is exam question 3 of lesson 64 «Rivers, lakes and the sea 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	amod
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tides	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tides	det
7	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cause	nmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 oceans	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Earth	det
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 oceans	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Earth	case
12	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal cause of the tides				upon the Earth's oceans	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	cause			the tides					nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

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 right answer

The pull of the Moon's gravity upon the oceans

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	_	7 gravity	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gravity	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Moon	case
7	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pull	nmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 oceans	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 oceans	det
10	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pull	nmod

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

Option 2

Earthquakes occurring beneath the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	occurring	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Earthquakes	acl
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 occurring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	gerund	Earthquakes not said here			the sea			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beneath sea=Location

Option 3

The wind blowing over the surface of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 wind	acl
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 surface	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 surface	det
6	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blowing	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surface	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	gerund	the wind not said here			the surface of the sea			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The flow of rivers into the oceans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flow	det
2	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 rivers	case
4	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flow	nmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 oceans	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oceans	det
7	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flow	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow		rivers			the oceans			nom flow «event intransitive»: of=agent into=place

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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