Test 10 · Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and…

«squirrels forget where they bury nuts lol useless» Why is that useful for the forest?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: squirrels · What happens: forget, bury, be · To what, where: nuts

This is test 10 of lesson 131 «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 forget	punct
2	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forget	nsubj
3	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 bury	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bury	nsubj
6	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	advcl
7	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bury	obj
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	9 useless	discourse
9	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bury	xcomp
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 forget	punct
11	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 useful	advmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 useful	cop
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 useful	mark
14	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 forget	advcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 useful	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 forget	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	present	squirrels			tree rules
2	bury in a quote	present	squirrels = squirrel	nuts	useless property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme
3	is	present	squirrels not said here		for the forest; useful 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.

The options

Option 1

Nothing grows from a buried nut, it just rots away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 nut	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nut	det
5	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 nut	amod
6	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rots	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rots	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 rots	advmod
10	rots	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grows	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 rots	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Nothing	from a buried nut	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from nut=Patient
2	bury	participle			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	rot away	present	nut	away property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Forgotten nuts grow into new trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 nuts	amod
2	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trees	amod
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	participle							tree rules
2	grow	present	Forgotten nuts					into new trees result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result

Option 3

Forgotten nuts turn into stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 nuts	amod
2	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 stones	case
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	participle							tree rules
2	turn	present	Forgotten nuts			stones			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into stone=Trajectory

Option 4

The nuts feed the worms only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nuts	det
2	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feed	nsubj
3	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 worms	det
5	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feed	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	3 feed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	the nuts		the worms				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Recipient

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