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Test 4 · ★ · Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern…

A beech wood is dark all summer. Why are the bluebells already finished by then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: beech wood · What happens: be, finish · To what, where: bluebells

This is test 4 · ★ 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: A beech wood is dark all summer.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wood	det
2	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wood	compound
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 summer	det
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	obl:unmarked
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a beech wood				summer	dark property	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: Why are the bluebells already finished by then?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 finished	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	aux:pass
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bluebells	det
4	bluebells	bluebell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 finished	nsubj:pass
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 finished	advmod
6	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 then	case
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 finished	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 finished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	present · passive		the bluebells					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Summer is too cold for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Summer					for them = they; cold property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They flower early while light still reaches the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flower	nsubj
2	flower	flower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 flower	advmod
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 reaches	mark
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reaches	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 reaches	advmod
7	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 flower	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reaches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flower	present	They					early property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	present	light	the ground			still		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=Theme

Option 3

They only flower every other year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flower	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 flower	advmod
3	flower	flower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 year	amod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flower	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flower	present	They				year		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Squirrels eat all the flowers in June and dig up the bulbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 flowers	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flowers	det
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 June	case
7	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 flowers	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dig	cc
9	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 dig	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bulbs	det
12	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dig	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Squirrels	all flowers				in June	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
2	dig up	present	Squirrels not said here	the bulbs					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bulb=Theme

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