Test 11 · ★ · Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baoba…

«baobabs grow upside down, my teacher said lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: baobabs, teacher · What happens: grow down, say, be · To what, where: upside · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 164 «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted» 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 grow	punct
2	baobabs	baobab	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 teacher	nmod:poss
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	14 right	discourse
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 lol	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow down in a quote	present	baobabs	upside	down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location upside=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	my teacher			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present			right 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

Yes, roots grow on top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 top	case
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	roots			top			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location

Option 2

Yes, they really grow from the sky down to the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grow	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	obl
9	down	down	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	they			the sky		to the ground result; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from sky=Initial_State to ground=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They only look upside down because the branches look like roots

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 look	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 look	advmod
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 look	advmod
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 look	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 branches	det
8	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 look	advcl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 roots	case
11	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look down	present	They	upside				down property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme upside=Attribute
2	look	present	the branches					like roots	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

No, baobabs have no branches at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	baobabs	baobab	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 branches	det
6	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 branches	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	baobabs	no branches		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient

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