Test 7 · Rivers, lakes and the sea up close

Why does a big river keep growing as it flows towards the sea?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: river · What happens: do, keep, grow, flow · To what, where: big river

This is test 7 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 river	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 river	amod
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 flows	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flows	nsubj
10	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 growing	advcl
11	towards	towards	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flows	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		a big river		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Eventuality
2	keep	present				tree rules
3	grow	gerund				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	flow	present	river		towards the sea	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It melts the rocks of its bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 melts	nsubj
2	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rocks	det
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 melts	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bed	nmod:poss
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rocks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	It	the rocks of its bed					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient rock=Result

Option 2

Fish add water as they swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 add	nsubj
2	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 add	obj
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 swim	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swim	nsubj
6	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 add	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	Fish	water					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	swim	present	Fish						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The sea pushes water into it

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 pushes	nsubj
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pushes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	the sea	water		water			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into it=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tributaries keep joining it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tributaries	tributary	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keep	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 joining	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Tributaries						tree rules
2	join	gerund	Tributaries not said here	it					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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