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Test 6 · Rivers, lakes and the sea up close

A city drains its marshes to build houses. What might happen next?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: city · What happens: drain, build, happen · To what, where: marshes, houses

This is test 6 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 city drains its marshes to build houses.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drains	nsubj
3	drains	drain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 marshes	nmod:poss
5	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drains	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 build	mark
7	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drains	advcl
8	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 build	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drains	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drain	present	a city	city's marshes					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent marsh=Source
2	build	to-infinitive	a city not said here	houses					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product

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 might happen next?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	next	next	ADV	_	3 happen	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	might						next property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Floods become worse because nothing soaks up the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 become	nsubj
2	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 become	xcomp
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 soaks	mark
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 soaks	nsubj
6	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 become	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 soaks	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	Floods					bad property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	soak up	present	nothing	the water					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source

Option 2

The sea becomes fresh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the sea					fresh property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

More birds come to live there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 live	mark
5	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	xcomp
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	More birds						tree rules
2	live	to-infinitive	More birds not said here			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The river stops flowing completely and dries up into a muddy ditch

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	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	4 flowing	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dries	cc
7	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stops	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 dries	compound:prt
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 ditch	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ditch	det
11	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ditch	amod
12	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the river						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	flow	gerund	the river not said here					completely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dry up	present	the river not said here			a muddy ditch			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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