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Test 6 · What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in

Dad wants to tidy all the dead wood out of the nature reserve. What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, best answer · What happens: want, tidy, be · To what, where: dead wood, nature reserve

This is test 6 of lesson 1 «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» of the biology 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: Dad wants to tidy all the dead wood out of the nature reserve.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tidy	mark
4	tidy	tidy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 wood	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tidy	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	13 reserve	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 reserve	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 reserve	det
12	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reserve	compound
13	reserve	reserve	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tidy	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Dad						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tidy not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dad not said here	all dead wood		the nature reserve			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.

Sentence 2: What is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Good idea, dead wood has nothing living in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 idea	amod
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wood	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wood	amod
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 idea	conj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 has	obj
8	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 nothing	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Good idea and dead wood	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	live	gerund				wood			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is a home for hundreds of species, so it is better left lying

The tree, 14 words

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	4 home	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 home	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 home	det
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 hundreds	case
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 home	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 species	case
8	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hundreds	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lying	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 better	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 better	expl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 better	cop
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 lying	amod
14	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lying	amod
15	lying	lying	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 home	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a home and better left lying				for hundreds of species	tree rules
2	is	present						good property	tree rules

Option 3

It does not matter, nothing uses dead logs

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	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 uses	punct
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 uses	nsubj
7	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	parataxis
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 logs	amod
9	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	It						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	use	present	nothing	dead logs					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Patient

Option 4

Good idea, it makes the forest grow faster and keeps the trees healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 idea	amod
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 idea	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
8	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 makes	xcomp
9	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 grow	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 keeps	cc
11	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 makes	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 keeps	obj
14	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Good idea	the forest					tree rules
2	grow	present	the forest not said here					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	present	Good idea not said here	the trees				healthy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

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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