Test 9 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest

«a whole forest that's one tree? nah» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: whole forest, one tree · What happens: be · To what, where: one tree

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 186 «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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	_	8 tree	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 forest	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forest	amod
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 tree	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tree	cop
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 tree	nummod
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 right	nsubj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tree	punct
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	14 right	discourse
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 nah	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	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	a whole forest	one tree					tree rules
2	is	present	one tree					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pando's aspens are all one plant joined by roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pando	Pando	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 aspens	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Pando	case
3	aspens	aspen	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plant	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plant	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 plant	nummod
7	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 plant	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 roots	case
10	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 joined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Pando's aspens	one plant					tree rules
2	join	participle		one plant not said here				by roots	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It is one giant mushroom

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	5 mushroom	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mushroom	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 mushroom	nummod
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mushroom	amod
5	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	one giant mushroom					tree rules

Option 3

It is a forest of plastic trees

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	4 forest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 forest	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 forest	det
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	compound
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a forest				of plastic trees	tree rules

Option 4

Right, every tree is separate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 separate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 separate	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 separate	cop
6	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	every tree					separate property	tree rules

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