Test 3 · Rivers, lakes and the sea up close

Which is true about the Earth's water?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	8 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 water	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Earth	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about the Earth's water; true property	tree rules

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

Lakes hold more water than the oceans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hold	nsubj
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 oceans	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oceans	det
7	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	Lakes	more water				than the oceans	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2

Fresh and salt water are about equal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 equal	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 water	cc
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	compound
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fresh	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 equal	cop
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 equal	advmod
7	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Fresh and salt water					about, equal property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Most of it is fresh water in rivers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 water	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Most	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 water	cop
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 rivers	case
8	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 water	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Most of it	fresh water		rivers			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nearly all of it is salty, and little of the fresh water is easy to reach

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 salty	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 all	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 salty	cop
6	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 easy	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 easy	cc
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 easy	obl:unmarked
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 little	nmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 easy	cop
15	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 salty	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 reach	mark
17	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 easy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	all	salty property	tree rules
2	is	present	all not said here	little of the fresh water obl:unmarked; easy property	tree rules
3	reach	to-infinitive	all not said here		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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