Test 7 · ★★ · Mountains: life as you climb higher
Mia picks an edelweiss on an Alpine walk to take home. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: pick, take, be · To what, where: edelweiss, Alpine walk
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Mountains: life as you climb higher» 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: Mia picks an edelweiss on an Alpine walk to take home.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 picks | nsubj |
| 2 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 edelweiss | det |
| 4 | edelweiss | edelweiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picks | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 walk | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 walk | det |
| 7 | Alpine | alpine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 walk | amod |
| 8 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picks | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 walk | acl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 picks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | present | Mia | a edelweiss | a Alpine walk | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edelweiss=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Mia not said here | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is protected and must not be picked in many places
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 | 3 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 protected | aux:pass |
| 3 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 picked | cc |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 picked | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 picked | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 picked | aux:pass |
| 8 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 protected | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 places | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 places | amod |
| 11 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 picked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present · passive | It | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | not pick | must · passive | many places | vn chew-39.2 «NP V» |
Option 2
Nothing, there are millions of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 are | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 are | expl |
| 4 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 are | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 millions | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | millions of them | there | Nothing vocative | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It is poisonous to touch
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 | 3 poisonous | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 poisonous | cop |
| 3 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 touch | mark |
| 5 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 poisonous | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | poisonous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | to-infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
It will turn into a weed at home and take over the whole garden
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 | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | aux |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 weed | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 weed | det |
| 6 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turn | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 take | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 garden | amod |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | future | It | a weed | at home | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into weed=Source at home=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | take over | infinitive | the whole garden | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme |
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