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Test 1 · ★★ · Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands

Walking in Scotland, you find a wide valley with a flat floor and steep sides like the letter U, but no ice. What most likely made it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: walk, find, make · To what, where: Scotland, wide valley, valley

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 65 «Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands» 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: Walking in Scotland, you find a wide valley with a flat floor and steep sides like the letter U, but no ice.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 find	advcl
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Scotland	case
3	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Walking	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Walking	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 find	nsubj
6	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 valley	det
8	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 valley	amod
9	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 floor	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 floor	det
12	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 floor	amod
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 valley	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sides	cc
15	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sides	amod
16	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 floor	conj
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 letter	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 letter	det
19	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sides	nmod
20	U	U	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 letter	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ice	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 ice	cc
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 ice	det
24	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund	you not said here			Scotland			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in scotland=Trajectory
2	find	present	you	a wide valley				with a flat floor and steep sides like the letter; no ice obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Topic

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 most likely made it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 made	obl
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 likely	advmod
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		valley				likely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

The options

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

A glacier during the ice age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 glacier	det
2	glacier	glacier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	during	during	ADP	_	6 age	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 age	det
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 age	compound
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glacier	nmod

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

Option 2

People digging for coal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 People	acl
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 coal	case
4	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 digging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund	People not said here					for coal	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for coal=Theme

Option 3

A small stream over a few years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stream	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stream	amod
3	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	7 years	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 years	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	amod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stream	nmod

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

Option 4

An earthquake that split the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 earthquake	det
2	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 split	nsubj
4	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	a earthquake	the land					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient

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