Test 2 · ★ · Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern…
Ella counts 47 rings on a tree stump. About how old was the tree when it was cut?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella · What happens: count, be, cut · To what, where: 47 rings, tree stump, tree
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 12 «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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: Ella counts 47 rings on a tree stump.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 counts | nsubj |
| 2 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 rings | nummod |
| 4 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 counts | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 stump | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stump | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stump | compound |
| 8 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 counts | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 counts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | Ella | 47 rings | a tree stump | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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.
Sentence 2: About how old was the tree when it was cut?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 old | advmod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tree | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 cut | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cut | aux:pass |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | about the old tree | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cut | past · passive | tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 94 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 94 | advmod |
| 2 | 94 | 94 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About 47 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 47 | advmod |
| 2 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 470 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 470 | advmod |
| 2 | 470 | 470 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 4 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 4 | advmod |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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