Test 11 · The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy

«that fig tree's eating the other tree?? that's well creepy» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: that · What happens: fig, eat, be · To what, where: tree, other tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 2 «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» 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 fig	punct
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 fig	nsubj
3	fig	fig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fig	obj
5	's	's	PART	_	4 tree	case
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fig	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	obj
10	??	??	PUNCT	_	14 creepy	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 creepy	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 creepy	cop
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 creepy	advmod
14	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fig	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 creepy	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 creepy	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fig	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fig in a quote	present	that	tree		tree rules
2	eat in a quote	gerund	that not said here	the other tree		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	that		creepy, well property	tree rules
4	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The fig grows round its host from the top down, and the host may die inside

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fig	det
2	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 host	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 host	nmod:poss
6	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 top	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 top	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 die	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 die	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 host	det
14	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 die	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 die	aux
16	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grows	conj
17	inside	inside	ADV	_	16 die	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the fig					round fig's host; from the top	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from top=Patient
2	die	may	the host					inside property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

The fig eats wood with its roots like teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fig	det
2	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	nsubj
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 roots	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 roots	nmod:poss
7	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eats	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 teeth	case
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the fig	wood				with fig's roots like teeth	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient

Option 3

Nothing happens to the host tree at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Nothing			all		to the host tree	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 4

The two trees join and become one kind of tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 trees	nummod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 join	nsubj
4	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 become	cc
6	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 join	conj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 kind	nummod
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 become	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 tree	case
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	present	the two trees						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	become	present	the two trees not said here	one kind of tree					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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