Test 12 · Rivers, lakes and the sea up close

teacher said tides come from the wind blowing the sea, i think he slipped?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, tides, wind, i · What happens: say, come, blow, think, slip · To what, where: wind, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 wind	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blowing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
12	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
13	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 slipped	nsubj
15	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 think	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	teacher			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present	tides		the wind	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wind=Initial_Location
3	blow	gerund	the wind not said here	the sea		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent sea=Patient
4	think speech: other	present	i			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	slip	past	teacher			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Yes, tides come from the Earth's hot core heating the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	10 core	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 core	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Earth	case
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 core	amod
10	core	core	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
11	heating	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 core	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	tides			the Earth's hot core			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from core=Initial_Location
2	heat	gerund	the Earth's hot core not said here	the sea					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, tides come mostly from the pull of the Moon's gravity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 pull	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pull	det
8	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 gravity	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Moon	det
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gravity	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Moon	case
13	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pull	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	tides			the pull of the Moon's gravity		mostly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pull=Initial_Location
2	pull			the Moon's gravity					nom pull «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

No, the wind is what makes the tides go in and out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tides	det
9	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	nsubj
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 out	cc
13	out	out	ADV	_	11 in	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	is a	present	the wind	tree rules
2	make	present		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	go	present	the tides	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, tides come from rivers pouring into the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
3	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 rivers	case
6	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
7	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 rivers	acl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	tides			rivers		into the sea	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from river=Initial_Location into sea=Destination
2	pour	gerund	rivers not said here						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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