Test 2 · Rivers, lakes and the sea up close
Rain falls on two sides of a long mountain ridge. On one side it ends up in one river, on the other side in a different river. What is the ridge called?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rain, ridge · What happens: fall, end up, be, call · To what, where: two sides, one side, ridge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 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: Rain falls on two sides of a long mountain ridge.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 falls | nsubj |
| 2 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 sides | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sides | nummod |
| 5 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 falls | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ridge | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ridge | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ridge | amod |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ridge | compound |
| 10 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sides | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 falls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | Rain | two sides of a long mountain ridge | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
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: On one side it ends up in one river, on the other side in a different river.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 side | nummod |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ends | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ends | nsubj |
| 5 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 ends | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 river | nummod |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ends | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 side | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 side | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 side | amod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ends | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 river | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 river | det |
| 17 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 river | amod |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 side | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end up | present | Rain | one side | in one river result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in river=Result |
Sentence 3: What is the ridge called?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ridge | det |
| 4 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ridge | acl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the ridge | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | the ridge not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
A watershed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 watershed | det |
| 2 | watershed | watershed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A meander
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 meander | det |
| 2 | meander | meander | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A floodplain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 floodplain | det |
| 2 | floodplain | floodplain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A tributary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tributary | det |
| 2 | tributary | tributary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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