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Test 1 · Rivers, lakes and the sea up close

A town is built on the flat land right beside a big slow river. What danger should it plan for?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: danger · What happens: build, plan · To what, where: town, flat land

This is test 1 of lesson 64 «Rivers, lakes and the sea 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 town is built on the flat land right beside a big slow river.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 built	aux:pass
4	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 land	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
7	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 land	amod
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obl
9	right	right	ADV	_	14 river	advmod
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 river	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 river	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 river	amod
13	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 river	amod
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 land	acl:relcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 built	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive		a town		the flat land			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on land=Source

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: What danger should it plan for?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 plan	obj
2	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plan	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 plan	aux
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plan	nsubj
5	plan	plan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	5 plan	case
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	should	danger						vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Sand dunes moving in from the river banks in the dry season

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dunes	compound
2	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moving	nsubj
3	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 moving	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 banks	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 banks	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 banks	compound
8	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moving	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 season	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 season	det
11	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 season	amod
12	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 banks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move in	gerund	Sand dunes			the river banks in the dry season			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from bank=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The river running uphill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 river	acl
4	uphill	uphill	ADV	_	3 running	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund	the river not said here					uphill property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Lava from the riverbed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 riverbed	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 riverbed	det
4	riverbed	riverbed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lava	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Floods when the river overflows onto its floodplain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 overflows	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overflows	nsubj
5	overflows	overflow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Floods	advcl
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	8 floodplain	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 floodplain	nmod:poss
8	floodplain	floodplain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overflows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overflow	present	the river			river's floodplain			tree rules

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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