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Test 5 · Rivers, lakes and the sea up close

A river runs through steep mountains and later across a wide flat plain. Where will it most likely make big loops?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: river · What happens: run, make · To what, where: steep mountains, big loops

This is test 5 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 river runs through steep mountains and later across a wide flat plain.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	nsubj
3	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 mountains	case
5	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mountains	amod
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 runs	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 later	cc
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 runs	conj
9	across	across	ADP	_	13 plain	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 plain	det
11	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 plain	amod
12	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 plain	amod
13	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 runs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	a river			steep mountains		across a wide flat plain	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mountain=Trajectory

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: Where will it most likely make big loops?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 make	advmod
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 loops	amod
8	loops	loop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	future	river	big loops				likely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material loop=Product

The options

Option 1

Right at its source

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADV	_	4 source	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 source	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 source	nmod:poss
4	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

On the wide flat plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	5 plain	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plain	det
3	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plain	amod
4	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plain	amod
5	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

In the steep mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 mountains	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mountains	det
3	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mountains	amod
4	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Only where it is fastest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 where	advmod
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fastest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fastest	cop
5	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 where	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					fast property	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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